Hi Dennis,
Technologically, we really liked the Open Office solution (ODF is a
nice format + the open office server is stable), but after 2 or 3
years we dropped it because all our customers use Mircosoft office.
I would not use Open Office when:
- The end result has to be in ms office (so you have to use the transformations)
- Your customers want pixel perfect documents. (they make their
templates with ms office and want us to use exactly these)
- Your customers have many different documents that they want to use
for mail merge and or reports.
About a half a year ago I described in an email to this list how we
use open office from VW (over uno bridge with python).
greetings,
Mathieu van Echtelt.
ps. Somewhere I read Microsoft will support ODF format in the near
future. This could help a lot, but I doubt it will do pixel perfect
transformations.
pps. Since a couple of months we use aspose.com (commercial java
library) and jniport (in cincom open repository, to connect to java).
So far, we're happy with it.
On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 7:48 PM, Dennis Smith
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