Re: [Hampshire] OpenOffice & MS fonts...

On Monday 18 October 2010 22:28:56 Vic wrote:
> > If you can open the document in OOo, could you export as a .pdf...
>
> No, I can't.
>
> This place has a whole load of MS-Office files. I'm trying to convert them
> to OpenOffice. They're not technically-gifted, so any variation from what
> they do in MS-Office is a show-stopper.

Been there, done that, got the teeshirt. :-( I even live with a version of
it. I have a husband who periodically complains about the fact that, as he
is left handed, he can't use a right handed mouse easily enough.

You and I both know the solution. I suggest the solution. But the solution
means A Change. Complaints about the mouse are not heard for a bit.

> On Office, they open the file and press the "print" button. In OOo, this
> isn't currently working :-(

:-( Perhaps upgrade OOo? Reinstall OOo? The print button *ought* to work.

> > In what way is the source document locked?
>
> In that the users will not jump through hoops to adopt new software - if
> it doesn't work in the way they're used to, they won't use it. So far OOo
> isn't doing as well as I'd hoped...

Now that is an unbreakable lock. It reminds me of a boss I once had. Every
year my department had to produce some data. Every year for the preceding 14
years the method they used failed. So I thought about it for a bit, and used
a different method. The new method worked. I got hauled over the coals
because: "That isn't how we do that here."

I pointed out that "how we do that here" had failed 14 years on the trot. "So
you ought to have done it a 15th time and made it work." There is sadly no
answer to "logic" like that.

Good night :-)
Lisi