Re: Improved OOXML support?

2014-10-21 Thread Jörg Schmidt
> From: BRM [mailto:bm_witn...@yahoo.com.INVALID] > Unfortunately that will always be the state of OOXML > integration for anyone other than Microsoft since OOXML is a > poorly defined standard that relies on many binary extensions > that are not published. Kind of like the old DOC/XLS/PPT/MD

RE: Build System Improvements

2014-10-21 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
inline -Original Message- From: Andre Fischer [mailto:awf@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2014 00:38 To: dennis.hamil...@acm.org; dev@openoffice.apache.org Cc: awf@gmail.com Subject: Re: Build System Improvements Hi Dennis, please see my comments to your two mails inline.

Re: Registration OF OpenOffice ~ it aint happening.

2014-10-21 Thread Kay Schenk
On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 2:38 PM, Karen Evangelista < dr.karen.evangeli...@live.com> wrote: > Good day to you all. > > I have downloaded the fab OpenOffice tonight but can't register. > > I have tried to download Java Runtime Environment but for some reason it > hasn't taken, it just lead me to th

Registration OF OpenOffice ~ it aint happening.

2014-10-21 Thread Karen Evangelista
Good day to you all. I have downloaded the fab OpenOffice tonight but can't register. I have tried to download Java Runtime Environment but for some reason it hasn't taken, it just lead me to the same download again. Is there another way please? Dr Karen Evangelista.

Re: Improved OOXML support?

2014-10-21 Thread Jürgen Lange
Hi Ben, you make me laugh. At the very moment Apache OpenOffice is far behind LibreOffice if you look at interoperability to Microsoft products. Last week I tried to load an Excel sheet (with pivo) into Apache OpenOffice 4.1.1. Loading stopped and AOO hang. It was no problem to load this tabl

Re: Concerns about the AOO community

2014-10-21 Thread Mateusz Zasuwik
For instance, here: >In other words, for some reason, development of OpenOffice has all but stalled, while LibreOffice remains an active project. Much of OpenOffice's recent decline may be due to IBM's withdrawal from the project. OpenOffice 4.1.1. An anonymous informant alleges -- and web search

Re: Concerns about the AOO community

2014-10-21 Thread FR web forum
> 3. So... Is it true that IBM withdrew their dev employees? Rumor or hoax Where did you hear this? - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org

Re: Improved OOXML support?

2014-10-21 Thread BRM
On Tuesday, October 21, 2014 4:41 AM, Jörg Schmidt wrote: > Hello *, > > From: Jürgen Schmidt [mailto:jogischm...@gmail.com] > > No easy to answer when or if this will be integrated at all. We have > > spend some time to integrate 2 use cases of this project and > > spend many > > many ti

Re: Improved OOXML support?

2014-10-21 Thread Jörg Schmidt
Hello *, > From: Jürgen Schmidt [mailto:jogischm...@gmail.com] > No easy to answer when or if this will be integrated at all. We have > spend some time to integrate 2 use cases of this project and > spend many > many time on it to make it complete (our work is already > merged in LO). > The p

Re: Build System Improvements

2014-10-21 Thread Andre Fischer
Hi Dennis, please see my comments to your two mails inline. On 20.10.2014 19:23, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote: Concerning refactoring the build of AOO, I wonder about Cygwin alternatives. Msys2 may be superior with regard to being friendly to the Windows environment:

Re: Improved OOXML support?

2014-10-21 Thread Jürgen Schmidt
On 21/10/14 08:34, Jörg Schmidt wrote: > Hello, > > Does anyone know when the integration of the extended OOXML filter > functionality will be completed in AOO? > > I mean the enhancements that have been created within a project of the OSBA: > http://www.osb-alliance.de/en/working-groups/wg-of