From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LRZdR-0007Os-TG for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 26 Jan 2009 22:08:50 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 90670E05F0; Mon, 26 Jan 2009 22:08:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ey-out-1920.google.com (ey-out-1920.google.com [74.125.78.150]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 501CAE05F0 for ; Mon, 26 Jan 2009 22:08:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ey-out-1920.google.com with SMTP id 4so828129eyg.10 for ; Mon, 26 Jan 2009 14:08:47 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:subject:date :user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id; bh=7SRfSqADAft8wWdjBwR2IL7qdo8LZdyfVnBwGf5qCA4=; b=gC8WEWW7uUSWCod11imfC03UkN0AHZN5E7hUhVMaxuv1+Ln3a6IR0WifbcTD7ht3Vn hKrXviwBEo1yM6lp9DX3krEodNpLdVdP3/f3izRgZsIGpziAbopG4fYzazMeV6MpKuJy DuhcHA/B38NihO1NP33J9mv5Z7WmRzszQqgkg= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :message-id; b=ZFG6EWACLqcBFTi0vbR4fXuO4sZ8rc9P/Epo+eauf42EKXPx/WenZD1V8Lv5A/hA7w 0/MW/Qjj39GwULXDYJ4168SfB6cvKewDNSTXuSqaXS7lKTp/QlS20FNagmtlazIBMf3N bCzJmWpmVncLkaUmUNOYhQc9BwfwpON8LSXWA= Received: by 10.210.38.5 with SMTP id l5mr3144642ebl.108.1233007727763; Mon, 26 Jan 2009 14:08:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from ?172.20.0.5? ([196.210.139.153]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 5sm7597559eyf.37.2009.01.26.14.08.46 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Mon, 26 Jan 2009 14:08:47 -0800 (PST) From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Crossover Office and Word 2007 Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2009 00:07:30 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.10 References: <200901262211.16415.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> <200901262116.29303.peter.ruskin@dsl.pipex.com> <58965d8a0901261338p131e1d61rc644e4feed1455e0@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <58965d8a0901261338p131e1d61rc644e4feed1455e0@mail.gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200901270007.30966.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: f30e81da-7142-49f2-9f45-e96d77d51fac X-Archives-Hash: da90db3d51facf30c326faae715e4d6d On Monday 26 January 2009 23:38:46 Paul Hartman wrote: > On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 3:16 PM, Peter Ruskin > > wrote: > > On Monday 26 January 2009, Alan McKinnon wrote: > >> Hi all, > >> > >> Other than Office 2007 is there any software out there that can > >> *write* .docx? > >> > >> Work requires me to use this format sometimes (it's not > >> negotiable) and I can get around it 95% of the time, but the 5% > >> causes me insane amounts of grief. Even though Office2007 runs > >> perfectly well in CrossOver, I have to put up with that stupid > >> bouncing ribbon, menus that are not there and > >> a productivity app that insists on launching all it's > >> windows undecorated (this last is the worst of the worst...). > >> > >> Ooo-3 can read these docs but not write them. > > > > As far as I can see, Ooo-3 _can_ write MSOffice files. Just open > > any OpenOffice document and try "Save As". > > Does not support writing Office 2007 OOXML format on OOo 3.0 here. > Only old Office 97-2003 (binary .doc) format. > > I think Go-OO has an odf-converter program that can convert OOo > documents to OOXML but I don't think there is a gentoo package and > last time I read about it, it was very raw (you'll lose > data/formatting when converting). I have a stock standard openoffice-3.0.0 here (not bin) and it claims to write Office 2003 XML. I believe from colleagues that this is not the same as 2007 .docx and I believe them as my Office 2003 in Crossover cannot open .docx I could be wrong though - I don't know all the ins and outs of MS's latest format decisions -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com