I once failed a uni assignment, because the teachers assistant wrote remarks on a pdf in a way that’s only viewable in adobe’s products.
She failed is because “we ignored her remarks”. Had no idea they were there.
ISO 26300
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iii@mander.xyz 11 hours ago
JackbyDev@programming.dev 4 hours ago
Ooh I would fucking LAY into her in the review if she did that, and cause a drink to the dean. That shit would’ve pissed me off so bad. I hate when people expect you to be telepathic like that.
FeatherConstrictor@sh.itjust.works 2 hours ago
To be honest she probably didn’t even know that the comments were only visible to Adobe product readers, but that’s still infuriating as hell
Hansae@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 hours ago
Had the same in gymnasium, eventually got it overturned via bitching about it. Notes wouldnt even show up on their webapp : /
ZkhqrD5o@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
Okay, I just want to say I blame schools for Microsoft’s monopoly on personal computing. School sysadmins are always dazzled by the shiny looking gifts that Microsoft gives them, ensuring the next generation of Microsoft useds is ready.
flambonkscious@sh.itjust.works 2 hours ago
Really?
They’re almost universally Chromebooks and the Google suite for schools these days…
lime@feddit.nu 1 hour ago
yeah but that’s fairly recent.
when i was in school in the late 90s it was all microsoft all the time. we had courses specifically on Microsoft^TM^ Word^TM^. that sort of indoctrination isn’t visible in the workplace until the people going through it are old enough to work.
Legom7@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
A couple years ago I interned for computer support at an elementary school in NYC. Most students had Chromebooks and Gsuite, K-2nd grade had iPads. Teachers had Lenovo laptops with Windows 10 and Office365.
TimeNaan@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
Wasn’t .docx also supposed to be an open standard but M$ kept fucking with the implementation so it would only work in Office?
nutbutter@discuss.tchncs.de 10 hours ago
JackbyDev@programming.dev 4 hours ago
Yes, it technically is a standard, but because it’s an ISO standard you have to pay for I wouldn’t call it open. www.iso.org/standard/71691.html but people have different definitions of what an open standard is and I’m not trying to critique them.
Puttaneska@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
Isn’t it open? It works with Dropbox and macOS Numbers opens .docx and saves as .docx.
otacon239@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
So does LibreOffice, but they’ve been called out multiple times for purposefully making the format overly complex to make it as hard as possible to reliable read and write to it.
bigfondue@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
Most of my professors prefer pdf
pheggs@feddit.org 2 hours ago
just rename the file and submit it as a .docx, it’s their fault
ArchmageAzor@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
Can’t OpenOffice export to DocX?
jbk@discuss.tchncs.de 42 minutes ago
please do not use openoffice in 2025
ArchmageAzor@lemmy.world 33 seconds ago
Honestly I keep mixing up Openoffice and Libreoffice.
mechoman444@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
Haven’t used word in over 20 years and have no intention of ever using it again.
OpenOffice baby!
MazonnaCara89@lemmy.ml 8 hours ago
OpenOffice 💀 Dude that thing doesn’t get a proper update since 2014, the most they do today is code style changes!
Indeed the libreoffice team wrote them a letter in 2020 about this: blog.documentfoundation.org/…/open-letter-to-apac…
iltoroargento@lemmy.sdf.org 4 hours ago
Libreoffice is so nice. I also use onlyoffice on my phone, and have liked it so far.
mechoman444@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
Works great for any and all word processing and spreadsheet that I need.
I don’t do that much of it anyway so I don’t really need anything more than open office.
lefixxx@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
*libre office
mechoman444@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
Yes. I know, it’s more popular than open office but I’ve used open office for so long now I don’t want to switch.
GreenShimada@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
Best thing I ever saw was an Italian cooking class that sent recipes as an ODT, and then 20 minutes later as a DOCX as an afterthought for the Americans.
Emerald@lemmy.world 29 minutes ago
Why not pdf?
ExtremeDullard@piefed.social 12 hours ago
Could we perhaps not drag RMS out of whatever dark place we're blessed not to hear about him from?
We have enough pedo shit going on with the POTUS at the moment.
abbiistabbii@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 hours ago
loweffortname@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 hours ago
blurb@sh.itjust.works 12 hours ago
For anyone who’s not aware:
stallman-report.orgZetta@mander.xyz 6 hours ago
Wow, he’s quite passionate. I just kept scrolling through the quotes and it never ends
ExtremeDullard@piefed.social 11 hours ago
Thanks. Sorry I should have linked to it. I kind of assumed it was common knowledge.
outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 hours ago
Does using the computer just turn people into this?
jcr@jlai.lu 7 hours ago
For anyone who is not aware: https://stallmansupport.org/
Serinus@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
Yeah, LibreOffice saves in docx. Which is fine as long as you don’t care what it looks like when they open it.
arrow74@lemmy.zip 9 hours ago
At least for school assignments this is easily fixed by just opening it yourself in the school library and adjusting format. It’s usually pretty minor.
Honestly most of my professors accepted papers saved as pdfs which was helpful too
crunchy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 hours ago
When I was in college and I needed extra time on a paper (because I procrastinated too hard), I would deliberately save the .odt as an incompatible .doc format and submit it. Which gave me at least as much time as it took for the professor to let me know they couldn’t open it and ask to resubmit.
HowAbt2day@futurology.today 9 hours ago
What do we do ir we want to be automática?
PropaGandalf@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
most of them accept pdfs so if thats the case for you just write the assignment in typst or latex and compile to pdf
absentbird@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
This is the way.
simplejack@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
Nick Offerman after getting Jumanji’ed
matmarspace@programming.dev 10 hours ago
It’s the right thing to complain about that kind of stuff and to do it officially.
Toes@ani.social 7 hours ago
I use RTF because it works on most systems out of the box.
absentbird@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
I write my papers in markdown. Simple to write, easy to paste into Discord or Lemmy, and you can use pandoc to instantly turn it into any format you like.
axEl7fB5@lemmy.cafe 8 hours ago
Me when the school system is Google Classroom
random_character_a@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
Personally complain to the it crew and you get that look.
TomMasz@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
I can smell this pic.*
*Not a compliment
individual@toast.ooo 8 hours ago
that’s an old looking William Riker
bhamlin@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
It’s the root mean square of Riker.
boonhet@sopuli.xyz 5 hours ago
Well played
A_Chilean_Cyborg@feddit.cl 1 hour ago
Everyone knows the only acceptable formats are .pdf and .tex, everything else should be shunned out of society.
lime@feddit.nu 1 hour ago
.tex is a source format, not a presentation format, and as such should not be valid in a submission field.
they should take .ps though.