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Hi folks
would you mind allowing to upload .odt (open document text) to this forum? this is an open source project, right?
Thanks & cheers
brans
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You could always zip it first.. but yes, point taken. Can we have .rtf, .xml, .sql and .tpl too please?
Current Allowed file types: doc, gif, jpg, pdf, png, txt, zip, gz, bz2, doc, xls, psd, css, tgz
Do we need doc twice? Can we swap the second one for Sneezy?
done, done and done. dwarf optional.
Ryan Thrash, MODX Co-Founder
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lol that was funny Ryan
Good point brans !
Now I can upload my
NeoOffice files
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Yeah well, that was for fun, I have no odt files to upload right now so it won’t be a problem...
Just curious, as a Mac user, what do you use then ? ? ?
Office Mac ? I sure wouldn’t pay the huge license, NeoOffice is nice and works alright...
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Ah, the same reason we’re stuck with developing for IE.
Exactly. And I did some silly survey thing for MS a year or so ago and selected Office 2004 as my departing gift. Even then, I would buy it as .doc and .xls are far too prevalent, and I actually purchased the previous release anyway. I understand the student/teacher licenses available on Amazon are relatively reasonable.
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Well I can understand this, but NeoOffice offers the option of saving as .doc (even break down into several version of MS Word compatibility options -> would that be all smoke ? I know .doc spefications are not public, this must be reverse engineering I guess, which might not be 100% like the original but how bad is the difference ?).
Ayway, about student and teacher license, in France you have to provide credentials to benefit from them... I am neither. Now, if I have 600 € to spare, I’d invest it elsewhere
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I believe that interoperability is getting better. The bits that go wonky in non-MS .doc savers tend to be tables, background images, styles, linking etc. Yes, that is Word I’m talking about.
I don’t use Word anything like I used to - but that’s because I write more webpages than previously.
I regularly look to see whether I can drop Word, but the only software I’ve used that meets my particular printable/shareable document-creation requirements is Adobe InDesign, which (given that it’s a pro-end DTP app) is considerably higher cost than Word. (One sticking point is the application of set styles to part of a paragraph. If you know of an open-source document editor that lets me do that AND lets me select a whole paragraph by clicking in the margin AND runs on Windows, PM me).
Personally I’d prefer that people posted either .txt, .rtf or .pdf documents here but there are times when other formats will make sense - particularly during the development of documentation.
There *is* a political message sent out when we announce the "Allowed file types" here, as the original poster inferred. I think the new line up reflects MODx much better. Hoorah for the little things! (Or should that be Hi-Ho..?)