OOo documents look different

Callum Lerwick seg at haxxed.com
Tue Jul 11 18:14:08 UTC 2006


On Tue, 2006-07-11 at 08:23 +0200, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
> An office document is not a bitmap and the WYSIWYG part has always been
> more a best effort thing than a hard commitment.

WYSIWYG means "Will print out right *now* exactly like it looks on
screen right *now*". It has nothing to do with "Will look exactly the
same when opened on a completely different software package on a
completely different operating system" or "Will look the same when
opened five years later".
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