• jiriks74@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    Doing these things is not easy and they take a lot of time and effort. But from a short look at the article it seems that there were issues with expectations:

    the officials were running into formatting issues such as blank pages when opening Office documents in Collabora and vice versa

    Like what do you expect when using an ODF first tool for OpenXML (Microsoft Office) documents? Euro-Office would be a better fit, from my ONLYOFFICE experience. It’s not perfect but it’s the more drop-in solution for their use case. It’s sad that this has come to an end because of what a good, experienced Linux user could tell them even before they began.

    • Jason2357@lemmy.ca
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      4 days ago

      I see this all the damned time. Some people are obsessed with pages breaking at a heading or figure so they insert manual page breaks all over the damned place.

      Even the slightest font kerning difference and you end up with blank or mostly blank page when some manual page break gets pushed to the next page.

      Delete the manual page break that never should have been there? Nah, just cancel everything.