Hi Drew,
Drew Jensen schrieb am 22.04.2021 um 18:59:
Howdy,
Recently I exchanged a few documents between a number of ODF editors:
LO 7.1 (all documents were created here with default settings)
Google Docs
Microsoft Office 365
Apache OpenOffice
In the case of all Google and MSO the files open up without any kind
of warning about the ODF version being 1.3. AOO (4.1.10 RC2) offers a
rather poorly worded warning.
This is a step forward compared to the change to ODF 1.2,
So far I have noticed no obvious loss of
features, but I assume there must be some, somewhere.
It depends on the content whether you loose something. Even if all would
use ODF 1.3 you cannot expect that different applications support the
same subset of features.
When I save from Google or MS or AOO the ODF version is dropped down
to 1.2, silently.
If they are not aware of the version, they cannot warn.
Open it again in LO 7.1 and it is quiet, edit and save it and it is
quietly moved back up to ODF 1.3.
That could be improved. MS Office has for ooxml a warning, that the file
is transformed to the newest version, if it has opened a older file format.
So, I was wondering if this is a potential problem for the end users
and if so should we recommend that they change from the new default in
LO of ODF 1.43 (a non standard) back to 1.2 if they are expecting to
share for editing with other editors?
I see no problem for end users. The differences between applications
using the same ODF version is larger than the differences between ODF
1.2 and 1.3. So when documents need to be exchanged between different
applications, the sender and receiver should always agree on which
features not to use. That is nothing special for ODF. You know it too
for HTML and browsers and for documents in ooxml-formats.
The advise should be to always save in "ODF 1.3 extended" and use other
version or formats only if explicit required.
Kind regards
Regina
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