[GTALUG] Europass docs and LibreOffice

[David Collier-Brown]

Editing odt in MS Word is a Known Bad Thing (;-))
It's obviously to Microsoft's advantage to cause competitors pain, and 
histoiricaly they've considered screwing up customers as a perfectly 
fine way to do that.

--dave

On 07/15/2015 08:00 AM, Stewart C. Russell wrote:
> Hi Malgosia,
>> I just had occasion to open in Libre Office under Ubuntu 15.04 some
>> (externally created) Europass CVs (with extension .doc), and LibreOffice
>> made a real mess of them
> This is strange, as Europass document templates are created and
> distributed as native ODF:
> https://europass.cedefop.europa.eu/en/documents/curriculum-vitae/templates-instructions
>
> The ODT and Word .doc templates look clean to me on LibreOffice, so I
> wonder if the sender of your documents fiddled with the contents a bit.
> MS Word can do that.
>
> Europass is supposed to embed standard field definitions that map
> directly to a standard XML schema. It's possible that this could be
> recovered from your Word docs and the results reformatted. It's also
> just as likely that the creator of these documents broke them irreparably.
>
> cheers,
>   Stewart
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