Re: [TCLUG:17130] Dreamweaver (was: <OT:anti-M$> *scary* stuff...)

[Troy Johnson <john1536@tc.umn.edu>]

Nick.T.Reinking@supervalu.com wrote:
> 
> I don't that you're exactly correct on the closed API
> /file format issue of high-powered commercial apps.
> Lets look at Photoshop:
> Or Dreamweaver:

I think you are looking at the exceptions and not the rules.

> The only thing is a bit weak is Office applications, most
> importantly Microsoft Word.  I think a lot of the translating
> problems for Linux apps is the OLE streams, which are kinda
> funky. 

They are not the only thing that is weak about MS Office proprietary
formats. Some products have a difficult time translating between
versions of the same program on the same OS, so it really isn't a Linux
problem. It is an Office problem, and it sucks.

> But doesn't GNUmeric use the Excel format?

No, it definitely does not. It can import them, and it may even be able
to save them, but that is not the same thing.



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	<a href="http://umn.edu/~john1536">Troy Johnson</a>

If gun laws in fact worked, the sponsors of this type of legislation
should have no difficulty drawing upon long lists of examples of
criminal acts reduced by such legislation. That they cannot do so
after a century and a half of trying -- that they must sweep under the
rug the southern attempts at gun control in the 1870-1910 period, the
northeastern attempts in the 1920-1939 period, the attempts at both
Federal and State levels in 1965-1976 -- establishes the repeated,
complete and inevitable failure of gun laws to control serious crime.
        -- Senator Orrin Hatch, in a 1982 Senate Report