Errors for users copying my ubuntu 12.04 LibreOffice3 files from my website to their MS Word

[David Fletcher]

On Tue, 2014-03-04 at 10:09 -0500, Don Parsons wrote:
> Most of the users of my web site set up with Ubuntu 12.04 will be 
> Microsoft users. I want to find out more about the difficulties they 
> will have copying the LibreOffice3 files that I will populate the 
> website with.
>      When I copy *.odt files to Windows7 desktop I see that they appear 
> as Word icons.
>      In Windows 7, if I open one of these there is the message:  "The 
> file "xxxx" cannot be opened because there are problems with the 
> contents." [press OK]
>      The next message is "Word found unreadable content in "xxxx" . Do 
> you want to recover the contents of the document? If you trust the 
> source of this document , click Yes."

Same old arrogant attitude. If the ratified ISO standard file format
doesn't work, it's got to be the file at fault not the lousy software.


> 
>      Is there a way to avoid getting these warnings and so alarming the 
> Windows users of my web site?

Yes. Add a link to your web site to download Libre Office. It's been the
accepted practice for many years to link to the Adobe pdf reader so
linking to a properly working free office suite should present no
problems.

Might also want to look at this document:-
http://standards.data.gov.uk/proposal/sharing-collaborating-government-documents
Another nail in the coffin I hope.


> Thanks

No probs.

Dave