Hello Michael, On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 12:20:56PM -0700, Michael Acevedo wrote: > Hi, > > I was wondering about subject as I was reading in the wiki that OOo 3.4 will > be the last supporting old OOo binary file formats (Can someone expand on > these?).
binary formats are the old StarOffice file formats. You will find them when you save a Writer file, for example. Choose from the "File type" drop-down list "OpenOffice.org 1.0 Text Document (.svx)" instead of the default "ODF Text Document (.odt)". You'll see that your writer-file.odt is a zipped set of XML files, while your writer-file.svx is a binary file (well... strictly speaking, everything is binary in a computer...). So dropping the old binary file formats means you won't be able to save in that formats, nor open files in that binary format. > Which makes me wonder, will OOo 3.5 and later add new file formats (such > as OfficeOpenXML, i.e. .docx, .pptx, .xlsx, etc.) AFAIK OOo can already open that formats (I have no idea, because I automatically reject every document sent in those formats :) ). > along with an improved implementation of ODF as a result of the > code combination with Lotus Symphony? not, AFAIK Regards -- Ariel Constenla-Haile La Plata, Argentina
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