Re: Sending a odt file format to windows user

On 05/04/2009 06:31 AM, Allen Meyers wrote:
On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 7:23 AM, Graham Todd <grahamtodd2@snip> wrote:

The Open Document Format (which is .odt) is not supported by
Microsoft....yet. They made a big song and dance about accepting more
open standards, but since then they have come up with formats that are
neither open or standards. The Open Office Standard is (AFAIK) the
only format accepted by both the ISO and the EEC, so tell you friend
there will be a need for him/her to send documents in that format
soon, especially if he/she lives in Europe. Applications that are
available for Linux and Windows are Abiword and OpenOffice, so he/she
could get one of these. In the meantime, using either of these
applications, convert your file by saving it in the .doc version for
XP. As an alternative, save it in Rich Text Format (.rtf) which Word
can use.

I'd recommend against that; OOo has a terrible time with RTF (both ways).


This is a perfect opportunity to extoll the virtues of free (as in
unfettered) software, and how explain that Microsoft want Windows users
to pay out ever more money when compatibility with accepted standards
can be effected by the use of free software that is also available for
Windows.

Graham:
I appreciated that so much I forwarded it to this individual. It said
it all from both perspectives

For Allen: This is a perfectly good opportunity to read through the OOo
documentation and tutorials available. I recommend spending some time
with the OOo support and documentation:

http://support.openoffice.org/index.html
http://documentation.openoffice.org/
and
<http://plan-b-for-openoffice.org/writer/topic/save-text-document-as-microsoft-word-doc>


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