RE: [libreoffice-users] Re: Is 3.5.4 ready for business users?

Lotus Symphony is different from LibreOffice (all versions) and Apache OpenOffice 3.4.  It forked 
much farther back than OO.o 3.x, as well as I can tell.  Although it has unique features, it does 
not appear to have kept up with OpenOffice.org and its descendants in other respects.  

I just started a fresh Text document in Lotus Symphony 3.0.1 and tried a Save As ... .  The only 
Microsoft Office formats I am offered are Microsoft Word 97-2003 (*.doc), Microsoft Word 97-2003 
Template (*.dot), and Microsoft Rich Text Format (*.rtf).  The only other formats are .txt, .sxw, 
.ott, and .odt. (There is an Export as PDF ... ).  

The only file formats I can make the default for Save are "Open Document Format" (no version), and 
"Microsoft Office 97-2003".  There are some other options for automatically converting from one to 
another on load and save.

Lotus Symphony is going to end-of-life, with replacement by a Lotus packaging/customization of 
Apache OpenOffice in the future.

The contribution of the non-Java Symphony-unique code to Apache OpenOffice is now under review.    
My personal prediction (FWiW) is that not much of that will be seen until Apache OpenOffice 4.0.  
There will be a 3.4.1 and perhaps progression to an AOO 3.5 before that.

 - Dennis

-----Original Message-----
From: Ken Springer [mailto:snowshed1@q.com] 
Sent: Monday, June 04, 2012 19:13
To: users@global.libreoffice.org
Subject: [libreoffice-users] Re: Is 3.5.4 ready for business users?

On 6/4/12 4:00 PM, Russell Wilson wrote:
> why? further complicate the issue, Aoo works

I was curious as to whether Lotus Symphony was identical to Aoo, or if 
there were things that were better or worse in that release.


-- 
Ken

Mac OS X 10.6.8
Firefox 12.0
Thunderbird 12.0.1
LibreOffice 3.5.2.2


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