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In libreoffice writer page should be possible to be split in one window  
Written by oliveryty the 6 Mar 12 at 08:38. New
I am doing English-Chinese translation, to find it difficult to work with Libreoffice Writer. It just can't split the page to make the source text and target text visible in one window, as I often choose to translate passage by passage...
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Solution #1: In libreoffice writer page should be possible to be split in one window
Written by oliveryty the 6 Mar 12 at 08:38.
In MS Word 2003, in the "Window" this is a "split the page" option. It make me feel convenient to have both the source text and target text in view when I am doing translation. Libreoffice should be possible in doing this...

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Print the forgotten line  
Written by Anjar the 26 Apr 11 at 11:50. Not an idea
"Oh no! I've printed 100 copies of my invitation, but forgot the date!" Who haven't been there? But do not despair, Ubuntu has the answer!
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Solution #1: Print last changes only
Written by Anjar the 26 Apr 11 at 11:50.
You have the document in front of you, with a lot of space in eg. the bottom of the document. Without changing the position of any of the other text, you add the missing sentence. Then you click on the "I forgot"-button, lay the printed invitation in the printer, and the only the new line is printed. Voila, you're done and have 100 invitations with date!

PS. Of course the button must explain which way the printed papers should be layed in the printer, so the new line isn't printed upside down

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Libre Office must be made more compatible with MS Office  
Written by OS1 the 1 Mar 11 at 17:43. Won't implement
I've been submitting bug reports and sample document for Open Office for over a decade. Progress is just too slow. Migrations both big and small fail repeatedly because of this single issue. I am in the process of tearing out Ubuntu desktop machines for the single reason that the office solutions are not compatible with MS Office. Even simple newsletters with two column layouts are failing. Text boxes appear where they shouldn't and are not the same size. Paragraphs are no longer in the correct order! The list is seemingly endless. OOo has been in development for over a decade and it still can't import quite trivial MS Office documents.
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Solution #1: Seriously support the developers
Written by OS1 the 1 Mar 11 at 17:43.
Ubuntu should put some money, developers and effort to help Libre Office to dramatically increase its M$ Office compatibility.
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Solution #2: Detect .doc/.docx file extension and propose installation of additional packages
Written by MoustafaC the 17 Mar 11 at 19:16.
This works the same way as MP3 files in music players:

When you open a MS Office Document, a dialog box would pop up reporting additional packages can be installed to maximize compatibility.

The user would simply need to approve and install the proposed packages (in this case: msttcorefonts)

This would only need to appear on the first opening of said document.

More details as to why this would help can be found at this bug:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openoffice.org/+bug/692336
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Solution #3: Propose standart font set for ODF format, add libre fonts to LibreOffice for w32
Written by Felitaur the 19 Mar 11 at 20:24.
If there is no requirements in the ODF standart, make one.
And demand, every system pretending to be 100% ODF compliant must have several libre fonts installed. Also, add such font set into OpenOffice.org/LibreOffice windows distributions and make it default fonts, unless user choose some other.

Make Microsoft include libre fonts into windows update.
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Solution #4: Add MS Office 2007 fonts to Ubuntu
Written by dveeden the 22 Mar 11 at 10:16.
The msttcorefonts do not contain the Office 2007 fonts like Calibri which is the default in Office 2007.

The fonts are available in the cab file for the free downloadable Powerpoint 2007 Viewer.

So a solution like msttcorefonts could be used.

Another posibility is using fonts from a windows partition if available.

The fonts are also available in the Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=941B3470-3AE9-4AEE-8F4 3-C6BB74CD1466&displaylang=en
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Solution #5: Begin spread ODF campaign
Written by Auzy the 28 Mar 11 at 11:32.
If Microsoft "monopolising" the market is indeed the problem, we should be developing a MS Office ODF addon (to replace the one Oracle is now selling commercially). A free addon was available for AGES, but nobody used it.

MS Office may be closed source, but it is extendable with addons

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