Came with some delightful malware hijacking my browsers to findwide.com. Still not fully clean, but working on it. Hopefully there is not more under the covers. Beware folks.
Today, I, who use Openoffice.org on Ubuntu, received some .docx files made in Windows to do minor editing on. After performing the edits, I had OO.o save the files, and I sent them back. To my surprise, I saw that the docx files saved by OO.o were 2-35% smaller than the ones I got (the 2% one was mostly an image, the 35% one was just text). I then, just to make sure, redownloaded the files and saved them in OO.o without any modification, and the results were the same - same files, same content, 2-35% smaller. Why is this? Is MS Office just more bloated than OO.o, is there some part of the docx "standard" that OO.o doesn't bother with? Has anyone else had any such experiences?
In openoffice.org
I'm copying and pasting html files into these word docs
The images are not align="left". They are not wrapping correctly. How do I align="left". It won't let me view source or mess with the html in the Word doc.
Thanks!
Screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/KvPv4kZ.jpg
Greetings--first time poster here:
I'm actually wondering why is this the case--after more than a decade of development of the program, I think this very basic bit of customization has yet to be addressed. If I want to use this software to make neat-looking documents I actually feel rather limited if I can only choose from a small set of colors, with no possibility to create custom colors of my liking.
I don't think this has a technical infeasibility--there's pretty solid FOSS software that does have components to define custom colors, just take a look at GIMP. Is it perhaps that in the development goals of the software this bit of aesthetics has such a low priority? Or is this part of some unchangeable code inherited from StarOffice?
She was an early author of OpenOffice.org how-to books. Her web site is still up but she hasn't published anything in years. All I've found is an obituary (hopefully not her).
Edit: Found her LinkedIn page. It mentions she attended Concordia College and a comment in the obituary mentions the same. Doesn't look good. :(
Update: Pat from TLLTS found an obituary with a picture. Definitely was her. RIP.
Update: Found a memorial page at Legacy.com.
Update: Contacted Facebook and her page is in memorial mode now (a little too easy). Twitter page still up (more stringent proof required).
