OASIS announced that OpenDocument v1.0 will be recognised as the OASIS standard for documentation. Several open source office suites including Openoffice 2.0, Koffice and Abiword (Planned) will support the new standard.
Approval of OpenDocument v1.0 as OASIS Standard
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regarding recent blurb how MS sat at the same table with Open Software folks and asked how can they cooperate. Well, this is how. Provide the import/export filters between OpenDoc and MS Word.
Though I doubt they will.
Can’t wait to see it implemented. I think this will go far in forwarding OSS.
Doubt we’ll see it anytime soon, but I envision a headline: ‘Customers ask Microsoft to support OpenDocument format, en masse’
http://www.openoffice.org – Beta version for 2.0 have it as a standard file format and seems to work just nicely.
http://www.koffice.org – Beta version 1 for version 1.4 has it and is released. Have not tried it though.
And about Abiword: http://www.abisource.com/mailinglists/abiword-user/2005/Jan/0082.ht…
From http://www.abisource.com/mailinglists/abiword-user/2005/Jan/0082.ht…
We thoroughly encourage developers to work on the OpenOffice filters.
Are they implying that Abiword is developers are not even improving the filters? When will they shift to OpenDoc as native format?
“When will they shift to OpenDoc as native format?”
I asked Dom Lachowitz the same question. He basically told me to get stuffed.
Considering OpenOffice filters for the MsWord .doc files work so well for me, couldn’t I simply open my Word documents in OpenOffice and save them to the new OpenDoc format and also in reverse?
That’s what they mean by ‘filters’ chris. When you save one format as another format. About time they got an open document standard happening. It only took what…. 25+ years?
planning to use OpenDocument as their native format like OOo and koffice are. I guess they’ll have filters if people work on it.
“Considering OpenOffice filters for the MsWord .doc files work so well for me, couldn’t I simply open my Word documents in OpenOffice and save them to the new OpenDoc format and also in reverse?”
Yes. Here’s what I’ve found works best;
* Create the document in OpenOffice and set the general format.
* Save in the default Oasis OpenDocument format as you go along.
* Save as Word DOC.
* Edit in Word.
* Save as Word DOC.
* Edit in OpenOffice and save as OpenDocument.
* Save as Word DOC only if you need to share the document.
What tends to cause problems;
* Creating the document in Word and using bullets or numbered lists. The main problem is that the list becomes hard to edit. This is a known problem with Word and can cause problems between versions of Word.
Importing a Word DOC also works, though formatting tends to stay in place better if you first create the document in OpenOffice.
As OpenDocument is a more stable and well documented standard, it is best to stay with it for a variety of office documents/spreadsheets/graphics/presentations.
Now what would be the “official” file extension (or suffix) for OpenDocument files?
.sxw refers too much to StarOffice, I guess.
“file extension?”
.odt for Open Document Text
It and .ods, .odp and more are already the default formats for Openoffice.
Can we get an Open PDF format?
~Aaron
AFAIK, the PDF format IS open (i.e., its specifications)
it’s the source code for most if not all reader/editor applications, that’s neither “open” nor “free” …