On 17 July 2015 at 17:22, Peter Kelly <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 17 Jul 2015, at 6:47 pm, jan i <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Hi. > > > > For those working on ODF this blog might be of interest. > > > https://blog.documentfoundation.org/2015/07/17/open-document-format-odf-1-2-published-as-international-standard-263002015-by-isoiec/ > > > > I am thinking of updating our web pages to have the links to ISO > included, > > thoughts ? > > Yes, I think we should definitely do so. > > I wonder about compatibility issues we may have to address now with the > multiple versions of ODF. If I recall correctly, some versions of MS Office > only support an older version of the standard (I can’t remember if it was > 1.0 or 1.1). > if was so, but has not been for some years.
> > For those more familiar with the details of ODF versions - should we > support conversion to specific versions of the formats? E.g. convert to ODF > 1.1 or ODF 1.2, in case the user wants to open the document in an > application that only supports the former? > ODF 1.2 has been around since 2011 as standard, but has just now been voted in as ISO standard. I think we only need to support ODF 1.2, BUT the question is still valid, because ODF 1.2 allows "extensions" which are used by both AOO and LO. I have also just been informed (on AOO dev@) that ODF 1.3 is work in progress, but only very slowly. In general we should be able to read (and due to our update method) also write all versions, but I would not offer a converter between versions, there are plenty out there, so it is not really needed. rgds jan i. > > — > Dr Peter M. Kelly > [email protected] > > PGP key: http://www.kellypmk.net/pgp-key <http://www.kellypmk.net/pgp-key> > (fingerprint 5435 6718 59F0 DD1F BFA0 5E46 2523 BAA1 44AE 2966) > >
