Hello; The ASF is a non-profit organization, we don't pay for coding but concerning docx support there was a talk from Matthias Stürmer in ApacheConEU:
http://www.apachecon.eu/schedule/presentation/46/ This effort, of course, predates the establishment of AOO as a TLP so we were not consulted. It is a well intended initiative but despite the funding it appears to have produced no results for OpenOffice so far. We had a chance to talk with Matthias and while I won't make any comments, I would think the organizers will make their own evaluation and will likely consider the results before engaging in future investments of this kind. Pedro. >________________________________ > Da: Andrew Pitonyak <and...@pitonyak.org> >A: dev@openoffice.apache.org >Inviato: Domenica 23 Dicembre 2012 14:46 >Oggetto: Re: AOO questions on Google > >No save as for docx is why libre is installed on a few machines i sometimes >deal with. > > >Sent from my Samsung Epic™ 4G > >"F C. Costero" <fjcc.apa...@gmail.com> wrote: > >Since there is some interest in this particular topic, here are the 9 >questions I categorized as MS Interoperability with the number of positive >votes appended to each in parentheses. >1. I tryed to save my word processor file as a MS Word file only >extensions listed in the drop down were for text or Open Office, no Word >option. Help function said I should have had that option in the drop down >under save as. version 3.4.1. >Could you add a converter for format MS .docx as the actual converter for >.doc does not work proper. It mix up text and drawings and make the whole >page a mess. (1) > >2. hello, >How can i open openoffice file with microsoft office? >Gr Sam Esman (5) > >3. What kind of OOXML support is intended in AOO? >Transitional (MS Word) version or ISO (does someone really implement it?). >(3) > >4. If save filter is implemented, don't you fear a weakening of the ODF >then? (6) > >5. allow open office to use ms office defaults (5) > >6. can i install openoffice when i have microsoft office on my computer (4) > >7. OpenOffice, should be able to open properly all 'Word office' files. (9) > >8. Is open office compatible with Office 2010? (8) > >9. Open Office doesn't handle tables in Word well - for example re-sizing >of columns, keeping table rows together, inserting page breaks within >tables. Could OO development include a goal of fully matching MS Office >functionality for tables? (13) > > > >On Sun, Dec 23, 2012 at 9:28 AM, Drew Jensen <drewjensen.in...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> Long time since I said anything and so how about, >> Happy Holidays, to start. >> >> Just to say that the #2 doesn't surprise me at all and yes I would strongly >> suspect it has lots to do with OOXML. Don't forget that this does not >> necessarily mean interoperability with MSO it also >> means interchangeability with GDocs as best as I can tell. >> >> Thanks >> >> >> >> On Sun, Dec 23, 2012 at 11:22 AM, Dennis E. Hamilton <orc...@apache.org >> >wrote: >> >> > Concerning Microsoft Office interoperability, I suspect the absence of a >> > way to save documents in OOXML formats is a detractor from Apache >> > OpenOffice 3.4. There are the usual interchange fidelity issues as well, >> > depending on which interchangeable formats are used. >> > >> > - Dennis >> > >> > -----Original Message----- >> > From: janI [mailto:j...@apache.org] >> > Sent: Sunday, December 23, 2012 02:37 >> > To: dev@openoffice.apache.org >> > Subject: Re: AOO questions on Google >> > >> > Thanks for the summary ! >> > >> > Personally I asumed that LO would be #1, but I am amazed about #2 (MS >> > Office interoperability and Other formats) I thought that was one of our >> > very strong sides. I might be worthwhile to look a bit deeper into that, >> > and see if the cause for the questions is in lack of features, lack of >> > documentation or someelse, to give a clue of what to do ? Maybe we can do >> > something with 4.0. >> > >> > Jan I. >> > >> > On 23 December 2012 04:00, F C. Costero <fjcc.apa...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > >> > [ ... ] >> > > MS Office interoperability 54 >> > > Non-English 15 >> > > Other formats 54 >> > [ ... ] >> > >> > >> > > >
