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Top 10 Blog Posts of 2009

January 1, 2010

The 2009 wall calendar is now tossed in recycling bin, and I look to 2010 with renewed energy and dedication.  But I did want to take once last parting look at 2009, from the perspective of this blog’s server logs. Top Blog Posts Update on ODF Spreadsheet Interoperability (May 2009) ODF Lies and Whispers (June [...]

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The Battle for ODF Interoperability

May 17, 2009

Last year, when I was socializing the idea of creating the OASIS ODF Interoperability and Conformance TC, I gave a presentation I called “ODF Interoperability: The Price of Success”. The observation was that standards that fail never need to deal with interoperability. The creation of test suites, convening of multi-vendor interoperability workshops and plugfests is [...]

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Taking Control of Your Documents

March 24, 2009

How to free yourself from Microsoft Office dependency in three easy steps The Objective When you save a document in your word processor, your work is encoded in a particular file format. You often have a choice of formats that you can use, with names like DOC, DOCX, RTF, WPD or ODT. Your choice of [...]

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The Challenge

May 5, 2008

<?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”UTF-8″?> <office:document-content xmlns:office=”urn:oasis:names:tc:opendocument:xmlns:office:1.0″ xmlns:text=”urn:oasis:names:tc:opendocument:xmlns:text:1.0″ office:version=”1.0″> <office:body> <office:text> <text:p>Dear Alex Brown. Please prove that I am invalid ODF 1.0 (ISO 26300:2006). I do not think that I am. In fact I think that your statement that there are no valid ISO ODF documents in the world, and that there cannot be, is a brash, [...]

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Document Format FUD: A Guide for the Perplexed

November 18, 2007

I’ve decided to put together a list of misconceptions that I hear, generally on the topic of document formats. I’ll try to update this list to keep it current, with the most recent entries at the top. Readers are invited to submit the FUD they observe as comments, and I’ll include it where I can. [...]

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A quick look at the 0.2 ODF Add-in for Word

September 4, 2006

An updated version of the Microsoft-sponsered ODF Add-in for Word has been posted. A few weeks ago I had tried out the earlier 0.1 version with results you can read here and here. The Add-in’s Highlights page for the 0.2 version says that “This release is comprehensive with respect to Text, Formatting, Paragraphs, Images, Styles [...]

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Traduttore, Traditore

July 13, 2006

Brian Jones in his blog entry of 11 July 2006, comments on their recently announced ODF Translator: It’s directly exposed in the UI. We’re even going to make it really easy to initially discover the download. We already need to do this for XPS and PDF, so we’ll also do it for ODF. There will [...]

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