Comments on: OpenOffice Lets Me Down, But the OpenDocument Format Bails Me Out http://redmonk.com/sogrady/2006/03/27/openoffice-lets-me-down-but-the-opendocument-format-bails-me-out/ because technology is just another ecosystem Sun, 13 May 2012 00:23:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Sam Hiser http://redmonk.com/sogrady/2006/03/27/openoffice-lets-me-down-but-the-opendocument-format-bails-me-out/comment-page-1/#comment-1818 Sam Hiser Tue, 28 Mar 2006 22:23:18 +0000 http://redmonk.com/sogrady/wp/?p=781#comment-1818 Manual uzip is a good suggestion from Solveig for the Accidental Tech Support people who find themselves with the challenge. Manual uzip is a good suggestion from Solveig for the Accidental Tech Support people who find themselves with the challenge.

]]> By: Sam Hiser http://redmonk.com/sogrady/2006/03/27/openoffice-lets-me-down-but-the-opendocument-format-bails-me-out/comment-page-1/#comment-1817 Sam Hiser Tue, 28 Mar 2006 22:21:45 +0000 http://redmonk.com/sogrady/wp/?p=781#comment-1817 Stephen- We encountered doc corruption with beta versions of OOo2 and sharing docs across different builds of OOo -- such as Windows to Ubuntu (a Deb build which was quite different than some others). Never knew what it was, but the frustration is real. The only way we overcame the issues with confidence was to habitually send PDFs unless we knew for sure the edits were necessary. Writely solves most of this. Stephen-
We encountered doc corruption with beta versions of OOo2 and sharing docs across different builds of OOo — such as Windows to Ubuntu (a Deb build which was quite different than some others). Never knew what it was, but the frustration is real. The only way we overcame the issues with confidence was to habitually send PDFs unless we knew for sure the edits were necessary. Writely solves most of this.

]]> By: James Governor's MonkChips http://redmonk.com/sogrady/2006/03/27/openoffice-lets-me-down-but-the-opendocument-format-bails-me-out/comment-page-1/#comment-1819 James Governor's MonkChips Tue, 28 Mar 2006 11:30:33 +0000 http://redmonk.com/sogrady/wp/?p=781#comment-1819 <strong>On ODF, OpenOffice and RedMonk as a three man, three platform, three timezone shop</strong> Great post yesterday about ODF and distributed team-working by Stephen. Taking advantage of the time zone differential between Denver and London, James processed the document in the morning his time, and when I opened my laptop first thing this morning... On ODF, OpenOffice and RedMonk as a three man, three platform, three timezone shop

Great post yesterday about ODF and distributed team-working by Stephen. Taking advantage of the time zone differential between Denver and London, James processed the document in the morning his time, and when I opened my laptop first thing this morning…

]]> By: Solveig Haugland http://redmonk.com/sogrady/2006/03/27/openoffice-lets-me-down-but-the-opendocument-format-bails-me-out/comment-page-1/#comment-1816 Solveig Haugland Tue, 28 Mar 2006 10:33:53 +0000 http://redmonk.com/sogrady/wp/?p=781#comment-1816 Sorry to hear about the corruption. I've never had that happen, myself, so have no input as to what caused that. But the ODF format really does rock, as you say. It would be nice if some open source programmer with time on his or her hands could write a nice easy-looking GUI recovery program that would unzip the file without someone actually having to know to unzip and how to do it. I can't do it of course, myself, not being a programmer, but it doesn't stop me from making suggestions for anyone else who might be reading. ;> Sorry to hear about the corruption. I’ve never had that happen, myself, so have no input as to what caused that. But the ODF format really does rock, as you say.

It would be nice if some open source programmer with time on his or her hands could write a nice easy-looking GUI recovery program that would unzip the file without someone actually having to know to unzip and how to do it. I can’t do it of course, myself, not being a programmer, but it doesn’t stop me from making suggestions for anyone else who might be reading. ;>

]]> By: Bill de hOra http://redmonk.com/sogrady/2006/03/27/openoffice-lets-me-down-but-the-opendocument-format-bails-me-out/comment-page-1/#comment-1815 Bill de hOra Mon, 27 Mar 2006 23:16:10 +0000 http://redmonk.com/sogrady/wp/?p=781#comment-1815 Why just last week... an Oo file I received wouldn't open in either 1.x or 2.x. It was a techspec with feedback comments. 10 minutes later I had the comments pulled out and recovered. Gotta love it. I think the only way to really lose ODF data is to erase it from your harddrive. Why just last week…

an Oo file I received wouldn’t open in either 1.x or 2.x. It was a techspec with feedback comments. 10 minutes later I had the comments pulled out and recovered. Gotta love it. I think the only way to really lose ODF data is to erase it from your harddrive.

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