On 28/10/06, Johnny Andersson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Since MS new formats are based on XML, wouldn't that be a good thing?
Wouldn't it be much easier for developers of OpenOffice.org to write MS
Office-OpenOffice.org file converters so that the converted file looks
exactly like the original? And if (yes, I said "if") MS XML format proves to
be better than odt, users of future versions of OpenOffice.org probably
could save in that format if they want to. If conversions between MS Office
and OpenOffice.org file formats were 100% accurate, which I think COULD
happen with that new MS format, wouldn't this be an advantage for
OpenOffice.org? I mean, as it is now, some people might not want to switch
to OpenOffice.org, because they really need to edit MS Office files and they
need them to look exactly the same wether they save them with
OpenOffice.orgor MS Office.
Johnny Andersson
Although the new formats are 'standardized' they are not fully
documented. Also, if I've heard correctly (and I'm not an expert) MS
Office renders them slightly different than the spec- which is not
very surprising. Also, the spec has a _lot_ of bloat and requires that
the rendering application deal with conconsistencies. Try saving a
file with the text "Hello World" in odf on OOo, and in the latest doc
on Word. I'm interested to know the file sizes of the two. I don't
have MS Office here to check for myself.
Dotan Cohen
http://mechonot.com
http://what-is-what.com/what_is/drm.html
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