Re: Elecraft Digest, Vol 190, Issue 22 Open Office etc

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A note of caution interchanging documents.
For plain text sharing and editing documents is fine in a varietyof word processing apps. However when it becomes a table, and more so withembedded graphics then the file conversions between different word processorsis non-reciprocal.If you set up a document eg in MS Word, post it to anotherword processor. Add and remove a space to force a new save and send it backthen whilst it looks fine the two files are different.

It can be a time bomb.

We used to prepare documents, text and formulae in tables inMS Word which colleagues would edit in whatever system they had.  After a few rounds the table format wouldcrash rendering the document useless.
After some 'fun' we repeatably demonstrated the problem. Itwas not necessarily the very last format conversion that caused the problem,omitting an earlier change made 'this' change work as expected.  The faulty document looked OK but failed thenext, or next but one, change of platform.
73  Alan  G0HIQ





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[Jim Brown-10]

On 2/27/2020 8:25 AM, Alan Bee via Elecraft wrote:
> For plain text sharing and editing documents is fine in a varietyof word processing apps. However when it becomes a table, and more so withembedded graphics then the file conversions between different word processorsis non-reciprocal.

YES!  This is the kind of stuff that can get screwed up in file
interchange. That said, I use tables in Word to insert graphics and
photos. They are simple tables, typically one or two rows by two
columns, with the graphic/photo on one side and the text on the other,
and this formatting tends to hold up OK going from Word to Libre Office
where I generate the pdf.

There are several dozen docs on my website done this way.

73, Jim K9YC


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[Neil Zampella]

Jim

if all you're using Open/Libre Office for is creating PDFs, you may want
to look at the PDF printer driver from Software995.com.    Its free
(with ads) but if you want to pay the $9.95, its yours for life.    I
use it for all my work, and I create a LOT of PDFs as records of
transactions in my bookkeeping role.

Neil, KN3ILZ

On 2/27/2020 2:56 PM, Jim Brown wrote:

> On 2/27/2020 8:25 AM, Alan Bee via Elecraft wrote:
>> For plain text sharing and editing documents is fine in a varietyof
>> word processing apps. However when it becomes a table, and more so
>> withembedded graphics then the file conversions between different
>> word processorsis non-reciprocal.
>
> YES!  This is the kind of stuff that can get screwed up in file
> interchange. That said, I use tables in Word to insert graphics and
> photos. They are simple tables, typically one or two rows by two
> columns, with the graphic/photo on one side and the text on the other,
> and this formatting tends to hold up OK going from Word to Libre
> Office where I generate the pdf.
>
> There are several dozen docs on my website done this way.
>
> 73, Jim K9YC
>
>
>

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[David Gilbert]

PDF24 is free, period, and works great.

https://en.pdf24.org/

Dave   AB7E


On 2/29/2020 9:50 AM, Neil Zampella wrote:
> Jim
>
> if all you're using Open/Libre Office for is creating PDFs, you may want
> to look at the PDF printer driver from Software995.com.    Its free
> (with ads) but if you want to pay the $9.95, its yours for life.    I
> use it for all my work, and I create a LOT of PDFs as records of
> transactions in my bookkeeping role.
>
> Neil, KN3ILZ

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[Don Wilhelm]

Both Libre Office and Open Office are free complete suites for Word
Processing, spreadsheet, presentations, and database uses.  What is
more, they are multi-platform.  Quite comparable to MS Office and have a
similar look and feel.

They can be set to save in MS Office formats, but those are not the
default file types.  I use Libre Office for all my documents and
spreadsheets as well as exporting as .pdf files.  Don't have MS Office
on any of my computers, except for the one my wife uses - she won't
switch, yet!

73,
Don W3FPR

On 2/29/2020 3:26 PM, David Gilbert wrote:

>
>
> PDF24 is free, period, and works great.
>
> https://en.pdf24.org/
>
> Dave   AB7E
>
>
> On 2/29/2020 9:50 AM, Neil Zampella wrote:
>> Jim
>>
>> if all you're using Open/Libre Office for is creating PDFs, you may want
>> to look at the PDF printer driver from Software995.com.    Its free

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