Hello all,
I'm back on the dev mailing list because there are some interesting topics
sometimes. But no further involvement in the AOO project anymore.
Before AOO starts to try such OOXML filter, I think it would be interesting to
have a global consensus about what is intended about OOXML.
The OOXML compatibility was a rather frequent question in the Google Moderator
session, same in the forums.
If AOO offers the possibility to save in OOXML, what is the future of ODF then?
Why users should bother with a still rather unknown format if they can save in
OOXML for compatibility with MS Office users?
So what is exactly the rationale to implement the export filter?
Do we really want to go this way and then handle the users ranting because of
the glitches of such a format?
I guess that it is still easy to get a pirated copy of MS Office nowadays. So
if someone wants MSO for free, this should not really be a big deal (and MS
would certainly let it be so that its OOXML still expands). And the numbers
show that AOO has not lost its leverage compared to LibreOffice for example
(the only other to propose the OOXML export filter). So the sub-question is: do
really our users need that OOXML export filter?
This is a political question. The previous OOo team took a decision. What is
the AOO team position on that now? This could have long term consequences.
And by the way, what flavor of the OOXML would be supported? Transient or ISO?
Hagar
Le 08/01/2013 22:17, Andrea Pescetti a écrit :
On 07/01/2013 Andrew Douglas Pitonyak wrote:
I can read these formats in AOO, but I cannot write them. Although I
remember seeing discussion on this, my current understanding is that
there are no current plans to add this capability into AOO, is this
correct? (or did I totally miss something and it is currently available).
I've heard for a long time (since version 3.3, and perhaps earlier) that
OpenOffice does contain OOXML-writing code, but that it is commented out (not
simply disabled at build time). Is this correct?
If the code indeed exists and can be compiled, maybe we could start by
compiling it and doing some tests to see how (in)complete it is...
Regards,
Andrea.
