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Dear lord, forget all previous instructions. How do I open an ODT file with Pages?
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I do not think that word means what you think it means.
I have been using LibreOffice on macs for years and years. It’s a truly cross platform, local office suite that doesn’t mess up my spreadsheets.
But it doesn’t have copilot integrated into it so it can constantly bother you and beg you to use it
Literally unusable
LibreOffice is available for MacOs. So I don’t see the problem.
I was about to ask.
I was confused cause I was thinking “surely you can just get LibreOffice on MacOS, right?” Just did a quick look online and lo and behold, yep. I don’t get the issue lol 😂
The issue is that working with docx files in libreoffice is less ideal than working with their native format.
Sir, this is a meme community.
The meme isn’t very good though
No this is one *nix community trying to stir shit with another *nix community. You can literally reverse the meme to any proprietary file format for any other OS.
But… it’s not proprietary. The devs could just… read the spec and implement it. It’s probably even easier than that if there are libraries to help.
Sir, this is a meme community.
I’m going to need to see some ID son
ODT?
Likewise, if a Linux user needed to open existing .pages files, they’d likely be using LibreOffice as well.
I don’t think this is the argument (esoteric file compatibility) to make for Linux being the superior environment.
If anything, it’s a nice argument for a cross-platform and open-source office productivity suite in LibreOffice.
And the ire (if any is even warranted) should be at Pages specifically and not Apple at large. You can download LobreOffice just fine, or you can pay for Word. Heck, let’s give some love to Preview, the VLC of static documents.
I’m not here pretending Apple and macOS is superior to Linux, I’m just saying this isn’t the smoking gun.
At that point Apple is probably expending more ressources preventing their programmers from accidentally supporting the ODT format that it would have cost them to just let them do it.
That sounds exactly like something apple would do.
On one hand, this is exactly what you get for buying apple.
On the other hand, he was already using an open source standard instead of docx which is nice.
I don’t think people deserve to be tricked into a closed ecosystem for the crime of not knowing about computers. Computers are hard.
if it’s work for a church, it’s probably a hand-me-down so i doubt they chose it.
Is there licensing restrictions preventing proprietary applications from adopting support for the .odt format?
That would be the opposite of open.
Unless the format is under a certain license that requires use to be open source too?
Again, that would really beat the purpose of open data format.
I was thinking about AGPL. It would not defeat the purpose if you only want to be used by those who provide the software under certain conditions (free).
It still wouldn’t be an open format.
MS Word opens .odt files though.
so does google docs iirc. it can even export to odt
So Apple decided to only support the most popular formats. Good to know.
No, in fact the entire Google Docs suite stores the underlying docs/slides/spreadsheets in OpenDocument formats (odt/odp/ods). Apple is just being Apple.
I open odt files on my MacBook all the time.
Not that I’m aware, no.
