I think asking the students to use the .doc or .odf format would be excellent to require in your syllabus. Also, for those instances that non-compliance is inevitable (I work in an educational environment too), you can use a virtual machine running MSOffice that will handle .docx files. That is what I do to be able to be as versatile as possible. Using Linux alone is not practical for me since so many co-workers/students use the .docx format, so I only use Windows and MS Office when I absolutely have to. So, most of the time I'm happily using Linux, but for those days when Bill has closed the gates of freedom and happiness, I have a virtual machine to come to the rescue.
Requiring a PDF is not helpful since you want to bleed on their work. I don't know of a guaranteed working PDF annotater in Linux and Adobe Acrobat isn't available for a Linux environment. So, to use PDF you would probably be forced back to a windows environment. (I'm not thinking you'd want to do your grading in GIMP, even though that might import a PDF!) By the way, a VMPlayer and VMware Server works well for the academic environment to create a virtual machine and play it wherever. Use it on machines with the cpu virtual hardware extensions though. I hate running on older cpus without that functionality since the virtual machines are much slower without that cpu enhancement. If your pretty savvy in Linux then KVM may be a better answer. The long term solution for LibreOffice is to have robust import filters for the insidious .docx format. I can't stand Microsoft for their lock in tactics and I am disappointed in the gullibility of the masses for just accepting the chains of MS enslavement. Dow -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/poor-conversion-of-docx-files-tp2799998p2801809.html Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
