An Open Letter To The Linux Enthusiasts. 4180
Yo Mike,
Absolutes like "everyone" and "never" are easy to shoot down... like you just did. But the majority of people out there do use MS Office. Not everyone, but most people do.
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This is the reality of how it must be done. Being the underdog trying to unseat the king, OpenOffice must be able to read MS Office files. Not being able to read .doc files would be a huge hurdle for OO users simply because of how common .doc (and .xls...) files are. MS-Office had to do the same thing when it was trying to establish itself. It had to read WordPerfect documents and Lotus-123 Spreadsheets. Similarly neither WordPerfect nor 123 could read MS-Office files at that time.
MS-Office does not have this ability. I don't see that happening anytime down the road either. Doing so would be damaging to the relationship they have with Adobe.
On Windows PDF export works at the printer driver level. You get (buy) a special printer driver from Adobe and "print" to a PDF file. This way any and all applications can generate PDF files. There are also a number of free PDF print-drivers available as well. (I never use them though... I just email .doc files.)
I've been using Linux Audio since 1997. What's the problem
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