On Tuesday, October 21, 2014 4:41 AM, Jörg Schmidt <joe...@j-m-schmidt.de> 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 time on it to make it complete (our work is already > > merged in LO). > > The patches were incomplete and the implementation not > > complete at all. > > We decided for us (some developer) that we don't spend further time on > > this. > This is bad news for AOO, because it will lose more users. > I myself had tried in recent weeks to paid support for OOXML filter but > unfortunately could not find one. > 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/MDB formats that were (in many ways) memory dumps of their respective applications - only for OOXML they're wrapped by XML. Until Microsoft publishes a real standard no one will ever be able to have true inter-operability. Of course, this kind of hurts Microsoft too since they basically have the same problems with OOXML that they had with the old formats between versions of their own Office products; a good standard would make that a non-issue. $0.02 Ben
