[softwarelist] Re: The failings of OvPro
- From: Clive Bonsall <c.bonsall@xxxxxxxx>
- To: davidpilling@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2012 16:17:41 +0100
On 2 Apr 2012, at 14:00, Dave Lawton wrote:
> On Mon, 2 April, 2012 1:17 pm, Ewen Pring wrote:
>>
>>> On Monday 02 Apr 2012 12:10:41 David Pilling wrote:
>>>>
>>>> If I was to do document export, what would be the best format HTML,
>>>> RTF,
>>>> MS Word, or some sort of XML variant as used by Open Office.
>>>>
>>>> Given that only one of the above is ever going to be done.
>>
> Snip David's helpful list of the differences.
>>
>> I would say OOXML first choice, ODF second choice. We have been moving
>> away from RTF recently and favouring OOXML (.docx).
>>
>> This would be useful for us. We'd want to buy OP upgrades with an
>> export to one of these formats. I assume it could apply to both the RO
>> and Win versions.
>>
> I would disagree, ODT would be the best choice, since Libre Office /
> Open Office can output in doc (several flavours back to W6), docx,
> html, xml, and also export directly to pdf (great for those who can't
> install a virtual pdf printer driver)
I guess it has to be ODF (.odt) or OpenXML (.docx) … whichever is less work.
But (David) are you proposing EXPORT only or also IMPORT … and for both OP and
OPW?
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