Open Orifice - mostly "Great" except for the lies.
It's all to easy to forget what tremendously huge strides have been taken since competition to Microsoft have taken off...
But the developers - and I mean that in the sense of while they ASK for new people they do nothing about sharing the knowledge, provide or facilitate the training of new programers or to include the contributions of those not in the clique.
So anyway, my main gripe with THEM is that they have programmed Open Office to NOT embed the fonts used in the production of work....
Like I have ~2000 fonts, from all the programs I have ever used and or owned and or obtained for free off the net etc., and that is FINE.......
BUT - when I do say an A1 poster - for personal or commercial use, then I save it that is good., and when I reopen the work, it appears as it was made.
It might say "Come See The Circus
With Jumbo the Mighty Elephant" etc.
But when I copy the file to a disk or USB stick and then take it to another machine - without the same fonts in it, or if I save it as a Microsoft document, or I save it for archival purposes, and then reopen it 20 years down the track.,
Then guess what., All of my fantastic FONT based artwork, with the headings and colors and locations, margins, layouts and word, line and letter spacing - from using 7 or 8 of my own exotic font's and font effects - well it's all gone and it defaults back to Times New Roman 12 point......
So that is the trap - There is a huge discrepancy between"'What they say" with the Freedom / Open Source / ISO standards / ARCHIVAL QUALITY - and how they contradict themselves and HOW they restrict you from using you from using your OWN resources...
And when cornered the weasels say, "Oh unauthorised font use is copyright infringement"...
So tell me weasels, "How does what the end user doing what they want with their own resources, make you responsible for copyright?
Losers.