Hi all, this one isn't directly related to scribus, but it's quite interesting anyway:
From: http://lxer.com/module/newswire/view/42442/index.html "The State of Massachusetts -- home of The Boston Tea Party, The Battle of Dorchester Heights and other underdog victories -- today released the draft document (for review & comment up until September 9) which would be the basis of the State's policy on acceptable document file formats. Among other information standards issues covered in the document, Massachusetts declares the following formats to be the targets of migration policies: -OASIS OpenDocument for Text, Spreadsheet & Presentation files (.odt, .ods, .odp) Migration Target: January 1, 2007 -Plain Text Format for Text files (.txt) -Hypertext Document Format for Web Pages (.html) -Portable Document Format for Other Documents (.pdf) Among the applications supporting OpenDocument are OpenOffice.org 1.1.5 and 2.0, StarOffice 8, KOffice 1.4, Workplace as well as, to some partial degree, AbiWord, eZ publish, Knomos, Scribus and TextMaker. Others will follow." ... "From Peter Quinn, Chief Information Officer, The Commonwealth of Massachusetts... 'We just published a new draft version of our Enterprise Technical Reference Model for public review available at www.mass.gov/itd (see feature story in the center of the page). The revised version of the Data Formats section begins on page 16 and identifies the newly ratified OASIS Open Document Format for Office Applications (OpenDocument) as our standard for office documents. Additional open and acceptable formats are also identified for other types of documents. Again, we would love to hear your comments and suggestions. Please forward your comments to Standards [at] state.ma.us by September 9. I would also appreciate your assistance in spreading the word about this public review so we can get the broadest input possible. Thank you.' " You can download a PDF of the official document here: http://www.mass.gov/Aitd/docs/policies_standards/etrm3dot5/ETRM_v3dot5draft_information.pdf Let's hope Microsoft doesn't pull a white rabbit ... ;) What seems interesting to me is that scribus currently is the only professional grade DTP app with OASIS support (correct me if I'm wrong). :) Cheers, Christoph
