Hi Jim Jim Seymour wrote
This is all rather unbecoming, don't you guys think?
Not really. This is just the two extremist sides of the ODF vs MS-formats. There are indeed some users (not Tanstaafl) who just want a free office suite that perfectly supports MS-formats (and don't care about free file formats as long as they can get the software for free as in beer). And there are the ODF fundamentalists (like e-letter) that say that LO should only support MS-formats for Import and even so that developers shouldn't waste too much time on that :) The problem here, as I see it, is that ODF is still in it's infancy. E.g. only recently ODF (under LibreOffice 4.1) started supporting font embedding which is an essential feature for anyone working with vector graphics, custom presentations or simply elegant text documents. MS supports font embedding since Word 6.0 (back in 1993!!!) http://support.microsoft.com/kb/188324 LO and ODF are evolving quite fast but there is still a long way to go. Just my 2 cents ;) -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Defending-ODF-against-OOXML-in-the-UK-tp4098594p4098881.html Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscribe@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted