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Best thing I ever saw was an Italian cooking class that sent recipes as an ODT, and then 20 minutes later as a DOCX as an afterthought for the Americans.
Why not pdf?
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Yes. I know, it's more popular than open office but I've used open office for so long now I don't want to switch.
wrote last edited by [email protected]Do you my guy but running an office suite that hasn't been patched in 11 years is a major security risk. (This is assuming you aren't exclusively creating and saving documents, but are also opening documents you recieve or download).
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our lab computers ran novell netware, which definitely told me that microsoft wasn't all there was. but yeah, it definitely conditioned an entire generation into only understanding windows.
To be fair, NetWare again was the product - microsoft didn't have anything worthy of respect until much later (and I can't remember if AD was any good in the early 2000s!)
NT4s Lanmanager was rubbish - NetWare was light years ahead as a directory service. I'd argue the institutions simply had the right tools for the job.
You are right about the hostile defaults / corpos getting into education to capture a generation, of course (and institutions want to be relevant to the market rather than to the principles or foundations, which is a shame)
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please do not use openoffice in 2025
Honestly I keep mixing up Openoffice and Libreoffice.
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.tex is a source format, not a presentation format, and as such should not be valid in a submission field.
they should take .ps though.
Hmmm, a compress folder full of the .tex and the resources.
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Hmmm, a compress folder full of the .tex and the resources.
i'm not sending anything that can be edited. last time i did that as a consultant they stripped our company logo out of the documents.
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Do you my guy but running an office suite that hasn't been patched in 11 years is a major security risk. (This is assuming you aren't exclusively creating and saving documents, but are also opening documents you recieve or download).
Actually now that you mention it I don't think I downloaded an ODT documenting forever in a day I mean probably decades.
But you are right of course there is a security risk but fron what I understand it is being patched just not actively updated?
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Do you remember when radicals were trying to cancel RMS because of him merely defending some accused person.
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Can't OpenOffice export to .docx?
I mean it completely fucked my resume when I exported it but I was being fancy with grayscale
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Everyone knows the only acceptable formats are .pdf and .tex, everything else should be shunned out of society.
.pdf can contain malware
But the entire paper in a .jpeg would be hilarious -
.pdf can contain malware
But the entire paper in a .jpeg would be hilariousAny format can really contain malware
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.tex is a source format, not a presentation format, and as such should not be valid in a submission field.
they should take .ps though.
Dvi file then.
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To be fair, that's about all there was... Corels (?) WordPerfect was ass, for sure. Office 97 was freaking amazing.
Although, I was a product of the time as well.
I used Applix on Unix / Linux and it was fine.
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Actually now that you mention it I don't think I downloaded an ODT documenting forever in a day I mean probably decades.
But you are right of course there is a security risk but fron what I understand it is being patched just not actively updated?
downloaded an ODT documenting
Doesn't really matter what document format it is, I wouldn't dare using OO anymore. Maybe they still patch critical CVEs, and maybe no one even attempts exploits because it's basically just in maintenance mode, but you never know...
Change isn't fun, but I don't think that UI-wise Libreoffice is such a big leap?
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Okay, I just want to say I blame schools for Microsoft's monopoly on personal computing. School sysadmins are always dazzled by the shiny looking gifts that Microsoft gives them, ensuring the next generation of Microsoft useds is ready.
wrote last edited by [email protected]Yes I really liked the "microsoft excel and spreadsheets" class everyone had to take for 1-2 whole years. The tools designed for us to learn basics within weeks and discover features naturally over time.
I mean imagine how many negative side effects on education there would be if we just spent one or two weeks learning KStars or Geogebra or Kalzium.
Don't worry tho cause with microsoft backing openai I am sure every student will be given a set of chatgpt premium accounts to "help" them in their learning. Universities are already doing it en masse.
You lose some you lose some.
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I once failed a uni assignment, because the teachers assistant wrote remarks on a pdf in a way that's only viewable in adobe's products.
She failed us because "we ignored her remarks". Had no idea they were there.
Tbh it's probably less of an Adobe problem and more due to the absolute mess that is PDF annotations.
Despite being a defined open standard, most free PDF viewers either don't support them (zathura etc), or fuck them up (GNOME evince). Even some of the viewers that do support them like Okular need extra configuration.
Unironically Firefox as a PDF viewer actually has the best support for PDF annotations.
The state of PDF Readers on Linux - Discussion - It's FOSS Community - https://itsfoss.community/t/the-state-of-pdf-readers-on-linux/12798
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downloaded an ODT documenting
Doesn't really matter what document format it is, I wouldn't dare using OO anymore. Maybe they still patch critical CVEs, and maybe no one even attempts exploits because it's basically just in maintenance mode, but you never know...
Change isn't fun, but I don't think that UI-wise Libreoffice is such a big leap?
It is not a leap at all. Was seamless for me.
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Really?
They're almost universally Chromebooks and the Google suite for schools these days...
K-12 use Google, University use Microsoft
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Any format can really contain malware
good ol virus.txt
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To be honest she probably didn't even know that the comments were only visible to Adobe product readers, but that's still infuriating as hell
All pdfs must be flattened! You just never know what people will use so flatten.
