Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 27th Oct 2005 11:25 UTC, submitted by Andrew Updegrove
More handbrake turns concerning ODF. In an official statement, Microsoft has said it will not support OpenDocument in Office 12: ""We have no plans to directly support the OpenDocument format at this time." This contradicts reports from yesterday. Andy Updegrove, OASIS' legal counsel, responds, once again. Really, there's no need to turn on your TV to watch soap operas.
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Member since:Export to PDF" exports to PDF as an image. It usually doesn't preserve text - the OpenOffice.org export, for example exports the content as an image
No, OOo exports formated text and font information, just try it - create a PDF from OOo then you can copy the test from Reader or Xpdf and paste it into Writer or whatever. The PDF specification allows you merely export an image which is why it is used so much for scanned douments. An image alone in an odt wrapper is not an acceptable Open Document file.
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Not really. "Export to PDF" exports to PDF as an image. It usually doesn't preserve text - the OpenOffice.org export, for example exports the content as an image.
If Office exports the content as an image into an ODF file - which is possible - it really will be useless, because unlike PDF, Word aspects change with screen size, so it might not be what you expect. Word wraps and page breaks might be different.
They have to export the text and styles into XML or it doesn't make sense to do it at all. Otherwise, you might as well paste screenshots into an OpenDocument file.
Edited 2005-10-28 15:18