On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 2:49 PM, Shrinivasan T <[email protected]>wrote:
> Today, March 31, is Document FreeDom Day. > > All the IT world is revolving around the Documents. Documents are the > carriers of the Information. > And when those Documents are in the proprietary format like > DOC,XLS,PPT, DocX, XLSX, PPTX, > we are bounded to a specific software to open those files – MS Office. > > What is the problem in using those file formats? > > The documents contain the information. If need the Information, we > have to use only that MS Office, which we need to buy. > > Thus, they are charging us to get the information from our own files. > > This should be changed. > > How to change this? > Why all our documents should be slave to a single company? > > The answer is “Use Open Document Formats” > > What is this? > > This is a concept/ method of creating file formats. We call this as ODF. > > What is the use? > > Yes. These document formats are open. Their specification, structure > is open so that any one can > build their own application to read/write information from these files. > > It is based on XML and It supports text documents, presentations, > spreadsheets, and other common type of documents. > The definition of the format has been done by the OASIS organization, > with input from OpenOffice.org, KOffice, and > other interested parties; ODF even became an ISO standard! > > No need to buy any costly software to just open/read/write a file. > Information is free now. > > How to use it? > > OpenOffice’s default format is ODF only. > Its Writer saves as “odt – open document text“. > Its Spreadsheet saves as “ods – open document spreadsheet“ > Its Impress saves as “odp – open document presentation“ > > If you are using OpenOffice use the above file formats. > Get the OpenOffice for free at http://www.openoffice.org > > If you use MS Office, install the ODF Plugin from > http://www.sun.com/software/star/odf_plugin/ > > Come. > Let us give freedom to the documents. > > -- > Regards, > T.Shrinivasan > > > To convert closed document formats to open document formats in bulk (I have tried Ubuntu with OpenOffice installed and AFAIK will work for other GNU/Linux distros with OpenOffice installed ) : for ppts ppt2odp *.ppt (will convert all ppts to odp) for doc doc2odt *.doc (will convert all docs to odt) -- Parin Sharma http://twitter.com/FOSSmaniac _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
