[wellylug] Quotes in M$Word docs, opened with OpenOffice
Rob Giltrap
rob at ubietygroup.com
Mon Mar 22 11:57:02 NZST 2004
Lyndsay Mountfort wrote:
> Thanks for that Andrej - but as far as I can tell that only alters the
> behaviour of quotes as they're entered from the keyboard, not as in
> existing saved word docs.
>
> But further to my own previous post, googling and looking at the OO
> site didn't help much (or I wouldn't have posted!), but my own further
> investigation showed:
>
> 1. this is a display problem only. When the document is printed, or
> exported as PDF the quotes, hyphens etc. are rendered just fine!?
>
> 2. it seems to be related to available fonts. When I change to
> affected text to different fonts, some seem to have the smart style
> fonts available, but my system doesn't seem to have display
> equivalents for those characters in the default fonts used by the
> original author using Word.
>
> If anyone can help with solving that somewhat narrower problem, I'd
> still appreciate it! I would very much like to be able to collaborate
> on documents with word users without having to run that other OS, and
> without mucking around too much each time we exchange them.
>
> My system is RH 9 - for now :-\
>
> Lyndsay
Two suggestions
1) Open Office v1.1.1RC3 is available now... maybe one of the several
hundred bug fixes may address this.
2) Star Office includes a lot more proprietry fonts (most of the ones
used in Windows which can't be distributed freely).
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