So for 2.4 i will commit a RTF only switch to openoffice server based export.
I postpone all over decisions to 2.5 that should have a whole new office export which would make most of them a lot simplier (no need to decide which format to export, etc.). On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 21:44, Thomas Mortagne <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > -- Thomas Mortagne _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
