ODF

First release of the Apache ODF Toolkit

January 26, 2012

The Apache ODF Toolkit 0.5 (incubating) release is now available for download.  Detailed change notes are also posted.  The ODF Toolkit is a Java library for reading, writing and creating ODF documents.  It is entirely in Java and does not require that you install a desktop editor like OpenOffice.  It operates directly on the file [...]

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ODF 1.2: Approved as an OASIS Standard

September 30, 2011

To quote the immortal words of Otis B. Driftwood,  “Let joy be unconfined. Let there be dancing in the streets, drinking in the saloons, and necking in the parlor”. The day has finally arrived.  Open Document Format (ODF) 1.2 has been approved.  It is now an OASIS Standard. If you are regular reader of this [...]

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An Invitation to the Apache ODF Toolkit

August 15, 2011

Perhaps overlooked in all the excitement generated by the move of OpenOffice.org to Apache was the fact that a parallel move is occurring with the ODF Toolkit.  A few weeks ago we submitted a proposal to Apache to start a new project based on the Java components that were until then hosted by the ODF [...]

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ODF Plugfest, Berlin

August 9, 2011

I attended the 6th ODF Plugfest took place in Berlin a few weeks ago, hosted by the German Federal Ministry of the Interior (BMI) and the Ministry of Economics and Technology (BMWi).    It followed the pattern of previous events,  a two-day event,  with the first day dedicated to technical interop activities among implementors, followed [...]

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Gwenell Doc: A Small and Fast ODF Text Editor

May 26, 2011

  Today I look at Gwennel Doc, an ODF-based text editor for Microsoft Windows.  In interesting attribute of Gwennel is its small size and fast speed.  It can load and display the 792 page ODF 1.2, Part 1 specification in around 2 seconds, using an executable that is around 1/4 the size of that document.  [...]

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Ten Things You Didn’t Know About ODF 1.2

May 5, 2011

Some little known facts, all of them true, but only some of them amusing, and even then only just so, about ODF 1.2, recently approved as a Committee Specification by the OASIS ODF TC: In producing OASIS ODF 1.2, we had 184 Technical Committee meetings, not including the numerous subcommittee meetings. During the development of [...]

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OASIS ODF 1.2 Committee Specification Approved

March 25, 2011

A few quick ODF updates.  We have a number of projects moving forward at multiple levels. First, just last week the OASIS ODF TC approved the ODF 1.2 Committee Specification.  This is the highest level of approval we can give to the specification in the technical committee. As some of you probably know, most standards [...]

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Best Practices for Authoring Interoperable ODF Documents

March 10, 2011

In the OASIS ODF Interoperability and Conformance TC we have recently started work on a new document, a “Committee Note” which will be called, “Best Practices for Authoring Interoperable ODF Documents”. I will be the editor for this document. If you are not yet familiar with a “Committee Note”, it is a new category of [...]

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The Versions of ODF

February 10, 2011

It has been a few months now since the OASIS ODF TC has done substantive technical work on ODF 1.2.  We had a 60-day public review last summer, a 15-day public review last December and we will start another (hopefully final) 15-day public review starting this week.   Every time we make a change to the [...]

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Microsoft Office and ODF: Best Practices

December 20, 2010

I’ve received a few questions about how to read/write ODF documents from Microsoft Office.  I looked around and did not find a comprehensive Microsoft web page on this topic, so I’m putting together this page as a reference for best practices on how to use ODF with Office. I intend to update this post as [...]

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