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| Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, January 04 2013 @ 06:43 AM EST |
Does this translation come close to working right now? About 3 years ago, I
tried to deal with Power Point presentations using Open Office, but I had a lot
of trouble doing this. Has it been improved that much? I can readily accept
that translating into older Word formats has been pretty much perfected by now.
By the way, thanks for fixing my double comment that was posted at 4:56 EST. I
don't know what was going on then, but the website didn't seem to be responding,
so I re-sent, not knowing that the first had gone through.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: ailuromancy on Saturday, January 05 2013 @ 12:26 AM EST |
Send files in Microsoft format as required,
but add a copy in an open format
so they have something that actually works.
I have witnessed plenty of
shouting and swearing
caused by people being unable to use
Microsoft format
documents with Microsoft software.
All that swearing should attract the
attention of
someone kind enough to demonstrate Libre Office.
Next time the
USPTO asks for consultation documents,
there will be a typo - Microsoft will
accidently be
spelled Libre.
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, January 05 2013 @ 11:55 AM EST |
Of course people who use LaTeX with the Beamer class to make presentations can't
easily do that. PDFs should be accepted too.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Tyro on Saturday, January 05 2013 @ 10:40 PM EST |
It could be ignorance, but I'm cynical enough to believe that they don't want to
hear from anyone who might object to software patents. So this is just intended
as another stumbling block, albeit a minor one.
And it's my suspicion that any submissions that object to software patents will
effectively end up in the trash no matter what form they are submitted in. They
have proven over and over that they prefer to issue patents, even obviously
invalid patents. Even blatantly obviously invalid patents. I think one of the
most blatant was a patent on adding together two numbers in Basic. This years
after Basic was first used at Dartmouth. (Perhaps it was only in Microsoft
Basic...I'm relying on second hand reports as I won't read patents. The actual
report I saw said the patent was on adding 1 and 1 to get two in Microsoft
Basic, but I find that hard to believe.)[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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