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by **Terry Porte** » Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:02:12

I have 3 fairly simple documents that StarOffice will not translate
properly.

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by **Joe** » Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:20:18

Quote:> I have 3 fairly simple documents that StarOffice will not translate
> properly.

So quit using a proprietary format, moron! Think outside of the Windoze box.
Learn to think for yourself instead of letting Bill Gates think for you.

That you post such things using KNode just adds to how stupid you make
yourself look.

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by **GreyClou** » Sat, 13 Apr 2002 01:31:13

> I have 3 fairly simple documents that StarOffice will not translate
> properly.

To the faux Terry: use winblows to give yourself a blow
job.

by **Sinister Midge** » Sat, 13 Apr 2002 02:02:27

On Thu, 11 Apr 2002 16:02:12 -0500, the articial Terry Porter claimed:

Quote:> I have 3 fairly simple documents that StarOffice will not translate
> properly.

You seem to have 3 braincells, with all of them not cooperating, too.

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by **kevin wilc** » Sat, 13 Apr 2002 05:14:18

> I have 3 fairly simple documents that StarOffice will not translate
> properly.

oh man...someone doing another shit job of impersonating Terry..Terry, someone
must really love ya!

kw

by **rapska** » Sat, 13 Apr 2002 06:31:05

Error Log for Thu, 11 Apr 2002 17:02:12 -0400: segfault in module "Terry
Porter" - dump details are as follows...

Quote:> I have 3 fairly simple documents that StarOffice will not translate
> properly.

<*FAKE TERRY PORTER ALARM!*>

Oh, you must not have gotten the memo. Macro virii will not translate in
StarOffice.

Sorry about the confusion. Hope this helps.

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by **mlw** » Sat, 13 Apr 2002 07:37:00

> I have 3 fairly simple documents that StarOffice will not translate
> properly.

Please come up with a reproducable example. If you can't, we must assume you
are being less than truthful.

by **Mike** » Sat, 13 Apr 2002 17:25:07

> > I have 3 fairly simple documents that StarOffice will not translate
> > properly.

> Please come up with a reproducable example. If you can't, we must assume
you
> are being less than truthful.

It might not really be Terry, but I used to have a set of 5 relatively
simple .doc files that I used to test basic compatibility with other word
processors. Star Office wasn't very good with them; as I recall, it couldn't
deal with 3 of the 5.

Among other things, it had a difficult time with tables (the table itself
was generally okay, but the text formatting inside was slightly different,
so words that fit in a box in Word were wrapped in StarOffice), and rotated
(landscape) pages. Proper placement of figures depended heavily on how they
were placed in the document (inline with text, as I recall, was okay, but
figures in frames were not). I was running all these tests on Windows, so
the issues relating to tables weren't related to fonts mapping to something
slightly different.

Translating from Star to Word wasn't much better, especially if things like
equations have been used. Star's equation editor is pretty basic, and
besides, Star doesn't save equations when the file is saved in doc or rtf
format.

-- Mike --

by **rcarte** » Sat, 13 Apr 2002 18:43:39

Quote:
> I have 3 fairly simple documents that StarOffice will not translate
> properly.

> --
> Terry Porter
> CEO Porter's Panties inc.
> I'm not only the CEO, I'm also a customer.

I've had no problems, but what I usually do with word docs I'm emailing is
change them to rtf (rich text format), because most everyone can read them
(there are some folks with MACs on one of my lists, and you can't always
assume everyone has the latest version of word).

by **Terry Por..** » Sat, 13 Apr 2002 12:32:09

kevin wilcox threw some tea leaves on the floor

>> I have 3 fairly simple documents that StarOffice will not translate
>> properly.

> oh man...someone doing another shit job of impersonating Terry..Terry, someone
> must really love ya!

Yeah kev, I love the attention :)

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by **D. C. Session** » Sun, 14 Apr 2002 17:00:41

Quote:> Among other things, it had a difficult time with tables (the table itself
> was generally okay, but the text formatting inside was slightly different,
> so words that fit in a box in Word were wrapped in StarOffice), and rotated
> (landscape) pages. Proper placement of figures depended heavily on how they
> were placed in the document (inline with text, as I recall, was okay, but
> figures in frames were not). I was running all these tests on Windows, so
> the issues relating to tables weren't related to fonts mapping to something
> slightly different.

Table formatting is a test that Word can't pass itself.
No two versions of Word have agreed on text formatting within
table cells, and often disagree even on the tables themselves.
It's inherently impossible for any other product to get Word
tables "right" in all cases since there isn't an unambiguous
"right."

Your other examples (frames for instance) suffer from similar
inconsistencies: try testing different Word versions and you'll
get similar problems.

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