SahwaMar 8

LibreOffice criticizes EU Commission over proprietary XLSX formats

https://reddthat.com/post/61544796

LibreOffice criticizes EU Commission over proprietary XLSX formats - Reddthat

>The Foundation sees this as a contradiction to the EU’s own interoperability goals. Although XLSX is standardized as OOXML according to ISO/IEC 29500, Microsoft’s implementations often deviate from the specifications. Furthermore, features often change undocumented, which complicates compatibility with open-source software such as LibreOffice.

Show threadtwinnieMar 8
I kinda get it though. I think every single time in my life I’ve sent a document in the non-Microsoft format I’ve got a reply saying they couldn’t open it. That’s from LibreOffice and from Mac.
Show threadSv443Mar 8
Trying to get tech illiterate people to use LibreOffice and to export their documents as PDF but they just keep sending the original files every single time… nightmare material
Show threadTetsuoMar 8

“Don’t use that proprietary format ! Use PDF instead !”

PDF is also an issue.

Show threadLeonMar 8
There are often also accessibility issues with PDF files depending on how they were created.
Show threadrecursivethinkingMar 8

For best results, print your word doc and scan it back in on a flatbet scanner. Fun fact you don’t even need to keep the piece of paper square to the scanner.

Or just take a picture of your monitor and text it.

Show threadTheMadCodger

Unrelated anecdote, my brother’s then wife post a picture of them on Facebook. Our aunt saw it, took a picture of her monitor with her phone, went to the store to have them print the photo out on photo paper, and then mailed it to my brother.

So he got his original photo back, but at a greatly reduced quality and with monitor glare added!

Mar 8 at 6:32pmWeb