OpenDocument got a lot of publicity lately. StarOffice 8 and OpenOffice.org 2.0 finally arrived, and all the other makers of office suites (with the notable exception of Microsoft) have started implementing the new standard into their programs. Massachusetts recently decided to use OpenDocument as the standard file format, effectively locking out MS Office as soon as January 1st, 2007. Other countries are on their way to do the same. Also, OpenDocument recently got submitted to become an ISO standard.
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Member since:same thing happens to webpages allready and i dont see much complaining happening from the penguins and daemons...
Webpages are not page-oriented, so there is no problem, if the fonts don't match. In OOo documents it might happen that the page structure (text/objects moving to the next/previous page) will be changed if another font is used. Worse if you use manual page breaks in your document.
Member since:2005-07-06
Member since:2005-07-06
First off, HTML, when used with CSS, lets you specify multiple fonts, in order of preference, for a piece of text. This means you can ensure the appearance on a variety of platforms.
Secondly, HTML is not page orientated, and when designed with modern techniques allows for fluid page layouts, so it can deal with different fonts and font-sizes (not everyone can see as well as you, you know).
This means good HTML/CSS will reflect the designers wishes on all platforms (note: market-share for Apple is around 10%, market share for Linux is around 10%, market share for Windows is around 85-95%, but as the first two figures show, it's not used all the time). Further, HTML/CSS offers far more aids for people with disabilities: it is a scandal that the web, which should have been the greatest gift ever to the blind and those with chronic eye difficulties, has remaining broadly off-limits.
At the end of the day, if you just want your users to read something, instead of entirely re-format it, HTML/CSS is superior, and that's why it's the language that web uses for publication, and rightly so.
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2005-07-06
same thing happens to webpages allready and i dont see much complaining happening from the penguins and daemons...
mostly its a questions of what your used to, and where the files come from...
files made by openoffice on windows and viewed in firefox on windows will see no diffrence. other combos tho may produce other results.
this however is more with copyrighted fonts then anything else