Whether a down-level software version will even accept an ODF 1.2 document as if it is a down-level document and do the best it can is not something the ODF specifications address. It depends on the down-level product.
It probably works with OpenOffice.org versions, but maybe not with other lineages. For example, the Microsoft Office ODF 1.1 support tends to be strict and will consider some ODF 1.2 documents as possibly-corrupted, although when asked to attempt to correct the document, it succeeds. There are some uses of new features (such as digital signatures) that fail in amazing ways between implementations, even when they are all identified as 1.2 products. In these edge situations, usually the only assured-to-be-successful consumer is a version of the same product that produced the document. There is work to do in that area. It may take a year or two for ODF 1.2 support to settle down and the level of interoperability to be raised across the board. -----Original Message----- From: Pedro [mailto:pedl...@gmail.com] Sent: Saturday, October 01, 2011 05:16 To: users@global.libreoffice.org Subject: [libreoffice-users] Re: OASIS Standard ODF 1.2 Approved Tom wrote: > > If you do have an older program then install any version of LibreOffice > instead! ;) Lol > Hi Tom ;) That was exactly my point. I hope that is not necessary. If I'm sending a document to someone with an old machine running OpenOffice 1.0 (or whatever worked with ODF 1.0) I hope that I can send him an ODF 1.2 file and he still will be able to open it (even if he looses some format) -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/OASIS-Standard-ODF-1-2-Approved-tp3384139p3384834.html Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
