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Weekly Links #12

2010/06/26 By Rob Leave a Comment

  • TeX4ht: LaTeX and TeX for Hypertext

    Appears to offer TeX to ODF conversion support. Would be interesting to see how well this works.

    tags: ODF

  • ODF visualization using WebKit | kdedevelopers.org

    “Today is day 1 of of the OdfKit Hack Week. We wrote a list of things we want to achieve this week. In order to avoid embarrassment, we’ll spare you the details and go straight through to an explanation of how you can use WebKit (or any modern browser) to visualize ODF documents. The general idea is to incorporate the ODF XML into a live HTML document.”

    tags: ODF

  • Joining the OASIS Consortium’s Board of Directors

    From Charles Schulz: “That’s something of an announcement for me. I have to say that I believed all the way during these elections that the odds were very much against me, but I was obviously wrong: I have been elected at the Board of the Directors of the OASIS Consortium. I feel both honoured and humbled by the trust and approval talented professionals and experts have put in me. I will try to show myself worthy of their esteem. To all of you, I would like to express my sincere gratitude.”

    tags: oasis

  • Moved by Freedom – Powered by Standards » See how you can use lpOD with simple examples and tools!

    “I wanted to highlight the fact that we have embarked in an effort to better educate developers on how to use the lpod technologies and develop on them. Because of this we have created some easy use cases for anyone who might be interested in using lpod. We will continue to expand these examples through various initiatives and we hope to be able to share these with them right on the ODF Toolkit website, as the lpod consortium and its leading contributors are now part of the ODF Toolkit Union.”

    tags: ODF

  • OdfKit Hack Week starts | kdedevelopers.org

    “OdfKit is a project that reuses WebKit technology in a toolkit for working with ODF office documents. KO GmbH is sponsored by NLnet to work on OdfKit for three months. This week, Chani, who is on her way to Akademy, is working with me on OdfKit and since she’s here an entire week, we’re calling it OdfKit Hack Week.”

    tags: ODF

  • Template based document generation using ODFDOM | Synyx Weblog

    “So far we are running code using ODFDOM for document generation successfully in two larger projects that have been developed recently. We believe that ODFDOM will help us delivering additional value for our customers with less development effort.”

    tags: ODF

  • KOffice.org » Blog Archive » Last Week in KOffice — Week 24

    “Google Summer of Code student Benjamin Port was amazingly productive, making Thorsten Zachmann, his mentor, very happy. Read his blog! Benjamin is working on implementing animation of objects on pages. This is a huge task, since ODF incorporates the SMIL standard for animations, and that’s a big document. Ben implemented support for SMIL duration, translations and keytimes — and fixed crash in page navigation. Another thing Ben committed was a sophisticated HTML export option for presentations.”

    tags: ODF

  • Support for the OpenDocument Format in Microsoft Office 2010 – Word – Microsoft Office

    “For more information on the level of support in ODF 1.1 for commonly used features of Office, see the links below. This shows which Office features are fully, partially, or not supported in the ODF 1.1 format.”

    tags: ODF, Office2010

  • OpenOffice.org Forum :: Email-based ODF-to-MSoffice converter?

    “I have an Apple iPhone that does not read ODF documents. So if I receive an email with an OpenOffice document attached, the only way I can read it would be one of those email-based converters, that if you send a file to, then you receive back the same file, converted to desired format.
    Is there any email based converter that converts from ODF to Microsoft Office format? “

    tags: ODF

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Weekly Links #11

2010/06/12 By Rob 3 Comments

  • Jeff Duntemann’s ContraPositive Diary – EPub and Word Processors

    tags: EPub

  • Eugene’s Opinions: ODF Templates For OpenOffice.org [Lulu.com, Turabian, misc]

    tags: ODF

  • EU Commissioner Warns IT Buyers Against Vendor Lock-in

    I think Sayer hints at the significance of the speech here. It is not merely a reiteration of the importance of open standards against vendor lock-in. We all understand that now. What is new here is the suggestion that European procurement should explicitly recognize consortia standards.

    This is an interesting idea. We try to avoid monopolies in other areas of economic life. Why should we then be satisfied with ISO having a monopoly on International Standards? Competition in this area could be a healthy thing.

    tags: standards

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Weekly Links #10

2010/06/05 By Rob Leave a Comment

  • xkcd: Infrastructures

    tags: ODF

  • ODFDOM 0.8.5 – The new Release of the OpenDocument Java Library

    tags: ODF

  • The Art of Standards Wars [PDF]

    tags: standards

  • EmacsWiki: Open Document

    “View and edit OpenDocument files inside Emacs”

    tags: ODF

  • ODT interoperability, jerez and tapas at the ODF Plugfest in Granada, Spain

    “We’ve went through testing scenarios from all previous workshops as well as from the current one and found around two dozen issues. More than half of those have already been fixed in the current release of Aspose.Words, and there are more fixes soon to come. You can download the latest release and see the descriptions of fixed issues here. “

    tags: ODF

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