Reproducing doc files.

users
#1

In general I use anything in preference to KDE
Office apps, but a recent instruction received
from a publisher in doc format was read more
accurately in Calligra Word than in Libre Office
4.1.

Specifically italic type was reproduced in
oversized sans-serif bold face in Libre but was
reproduced in oversized slanted type in Calligra.
I misunderstood the publisher's desires until I
used Calligra. He wants italics which is what I
normally would have used in the particular
situation in an index.

Also in Libre certain bold face passages were
interpreted as larger sans-serif type
which caused some text to over print other text.

Neither program scored 100% but Calligra came
closer. So I will give it a closer look.

Doc format is not my favorite choice of course but
some customers insist on it.

Copies of the original doc file are available on
request.

#2

Hi :slight_smile:
It is fairly easy to have both office suites. Both are free and relatively
light on resources. For your line of work it's probably best to have a few
different suites and programs for the next couple of years until things
settle down a bit. All the non-MS tend to be quite consistent with each
other but many people are still on MS Office and that seems to continue
causing these problems with formats.

Are you sure it is Doc rather than the newer DocX? The newer one is
different for each different version of MS Office so different programs are
each better at dealing with different versions of that particular format.

People asking for the older MS format might well be using OpenOffice,
LibreOffice, Google-docs, Caligra/KOffice, Lotus Symphony or any of the
other programs and suites that natively use ODF. They mostly ask for the
older MS format because it's easier for them than the newer MS format.

So, it might be worth asking some of them if they would prefer ODF instead.

Regards from
Tom :slight_smile: