[Wine] Re: Open Office install

DaVince wrote:
> In the end it's simple saving to a file, so I don't think the Windows version 
> would save it correctly. Try installing Abiword, opening the document in 
> there and exporting it to RTF in Abiword? (Abiword is tiny enough to exist 
> alongside OOo, as well as open simpler documents really quickly.)


If OOfice messes up something (such as not using a text/binary flag), then 
different library implementations which it relies on could hit it. For 
instance, if one writes a binary file without setting the ios::binary flag, 
different outcomes may happen, since nothing in the specification dictates 
that, without that flag, the stream must remain unchanged.

That said, I also don't think that moving OOffice into wine would help, but I 
think I should make it clear that it is possible to screw up something and have 
it produce different outputs on different platforms.

Cheers,

Jorl17