On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 19:03, Florin Ciubotaru <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > >>> >> > Why not use the opportunity to export to DOC instead/in addition of RTF. >> > It would be only support the DOC export param and add/replace one menu >> > to show DOC. >> > >> > We used RTF only because FOP only did RTF while what we really want is >> DOC >> > >> > Ludovic >> >> Supporting .doc is a bit, well, late. I'm saying this because .docx >> should be the new and improved version, so a more relevant format would >> be .docx (Office Open XML). However, even Microsoft recognized that >> OOXML lost the battle with ODF, and the future format which will be >> supported by most tools seems to be ODF. >> > We don't have to choose one. If we provide one format via OOo then we can > provide all popular formats(pdf, doc, docx, odf). The cost of exporting > extra formats is quite low.
Again this proposal is not about office exporter which needs a lot more work... > > Thanks, > Florin Ciubotaru > >> >> And, in addition, .doc is a binary, proprietary and secret format, and >> we try to encourage open and/or standard formats. >> >> Yet, a large share of XWiki users are still using older versions of the >> MS Office suite, which makes .doc almost mandatory... >> >> -- >> Sergiu Dumitriu >> http://purl.org/net/sergiu/ >> _______________________________________________ >> devs mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs >> > _______________________________________________ > devs mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs > -- Thomas Mortagne _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
