[OS X TeX] TeX and the wild wild world out there
Bruno Voisin
bvoisin at mac.com
Thu Nov 30 17:19:41 CET 2006
Le 30 nov. 06 à 17:06, Paul Vickers a écrit :
> Windows colleagues send me Word documents all the time and when I
> open them on my Mac (running Office v.x) all the pictures tend to
> come out as nice red Xs. I wonder why all my colleagues like
> drawing red Xs! ;-)
Just yesterday I tried to work on a research proposal involving
several people from several universities. The proposal was a RTF
file, edited by some in Word (probably the Windows version) and by
others in OpenOffice.
When I tried to open it:
- Word Mac 2004 complained that the file "contained imbricated tables
too complex to be displayed". I couldn't display the file or even
print it, only garbage resulted.
- OpenOffice opened the file OK (both the X11 version and NeoOffice),
but there were font and encoding issues resulting in some characters
being substituted with garbage.
Finally I had to ask the coordinator of the proposal to convert the
RTF file to a DOC file on Windows, and send me the result. Only then
could I, at last, add my part to the proposal on my Mac.
Bruno Voisin
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