Weekly Links #16

• VML is baack… – Aspose.Words Product Family – Blogs

  “But the interesting thing that we came across is that ISO 29500 allows extensions and Microsoft did not waste any time by implementing something that is known as [MS-ODRAWXML]: Office Drawing Extensions to Office Open XML Structure Specification. This document basically puts VML back into ISO 29500 Strict documents via the standard extension mechanism.”

  tags: OOXML

• MATLAB Central – File detail – Read Open Document Format Spreadsheet (.ods)

  MatLab routine that calls into ODFDOM to load data from an ODF spreadsheet

  tags: ODF ODFDOM

• odt2braille brings Braille to OpenOffice.org – The H Open Source: News and Features

  “The release of odt2braille by the Belgian university Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, has brought the ability to work with Braille to OpenOffice.org. The extension adds a “Braille” menu to OpenOffice.org’s Writer which allows users to translate documents into Braille formats such as .brf or .pef or send the content to Braille printers for embossing. The development was supported by the EU funded AEGIS project.”

  tags: ODF

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