https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=74169

--- Comment #4 from David Tardon <[email protected]> ---
(In reply to comment #3)
> The format is pretty simple

You only think that because you have never seen a document with complex layout,
charts, tables and other objects in it.

> and XML so I wouldn't say reverse engineering
> would be needed.

You would be wrong. That the format is XML does not mean it is immediately
obvious what the elements/attributes and their values mean. And how they work
together. E.g., the parameters for parametrized shapes (stars, arrows, quote
bubbles, etc.) are saved as opaque numeric values.

Or take tables. Most of the table-related elements and attributes are 1-3
letter abbreviations. What is even "better": only non-empty cells are actually
saved. The position of the next filled cell (i.e., row and column) is saved,
inventively, using a single attribute. (Of course, first you need to discover
that this attribute--which is called sf:ct--has anything to do with the
placement of cells in the grid...)

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