Re: Improved OOXML support?

2014-10-24 Thread Jörg Schmidt
From: Jürgen Schmidt [mailto:jogischm...@gmail.com] no it means the benefit of the patches is so minimal that a rewrite is probably cheaper and easier. For the example for 1 use case we have integrated we spend a lot of time to understand the patch and realize that the implementation

Re: Improved OOXML support?

2014-10-23 Thread Andreas Säger
Am 23.10.2014 um 06:47 schrieb Jörg Schmidt: I think it's good that we live in a free society and customers have the right to see things differently. Being a customer, I do see things differently. Every OOXML file is a vote against ODF. One day in future LO will save ODF as a secondary

Re: Improved OOXML support?

2014-10-22 Thread BRM
On Wednesday, October 22, 2014 1:03 AM, Jörg Schmidt joe...@j-m-schmidt.de wrote: From: BRM [mailto:bm_witn...@yahoo.com.INVALID] Unfortunately that will always be the state of OOXML integration for anyone other than Microsoft since OOXML is a poorly defined standard that relies on

RE: Improved OOXML support?

2014-10-22 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
orcnotes inline -Original Message- From: BRM [mailto:bm_witn...@yahoo.com.INVALID] Sent: Wednesday, October 22, 2014 08:12 To: dev@openoffice.apache.org Subject: Re: Improved OOXML support? On Wednesday, October 22, 2014 1:03 AM, Jörg Schmidt joe...@j-m-schmidt.de wrote: From: BRM

Re: Improved OOXML support?

2014-10-22 Thread Jörg Schmidt
I find it really strange that it seems impossible to find companies that are willing to integrate corresponding filter in AOO, as a normal commercial support. Probably because it is not an easy task, too much of a moving target, and more.Yes, you can figure out a series of files, but

RE: Improved OOXML support?

2014-10-22 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
: Wednesday, October 22, 2014 12:54 To: dev@openoffice.apache.org; dennis.hamil...@acm.org Subject: Re: Improved OOXML support? I find it really strange that it seems impossible to find companies that are willing to integrate corresponding filter in AOO, as a normal commercial support

Re: Improved OOXML support?

2014-10-22 Thread Andreas Säger
Am 22.10.2014 um 07:03 schrieb Jörg Schmidt: I find it really strange that it seems impossible to find companies that are willing to integrate corresponding filter in AOO, as a normal commercial support. If I were in need of an OOXML suite, I would pay for the real one. The other one is

Re: Improved OOXML support?

2014-10-22 Thread Jörg Schmidt
From: Andreas Säger [mailto:saege...@t-online.de] I find it really strange that it seems impossible to find companies that are willing to integrate corresponding filter in AOO, as a normal commercial support. If I were in need of an OOXML suite, I would pay for the real one. The

Re: Improved OOXML support?

2014-10-22 Thread Jörg Schmidt
From: Dennis E. Hamilton [mailto:dennis.hamil...@acm.org] Sent: Wednesday, October 22, 2014 11:13 PM To: dev@openoffice.apache.org Subject: RE: Improved OOXML support? With regard to the quotation from me, yes, it is possible to find funding for improvements. There have been requests

Re: Improved OOXML support?

2014-10-21 Thread Jürgen Schmidt
On 21/10/14 08:34, Jörg Schmidt wrote: Hello, Does anyone know when the integration of the extended OOXML filter functionality will be completed in AOO? I mean the enhancements that have been created within a project of the OSBA:

Re: Improved OOXML support?

2014-10-21 Thread Jörg Schmidt
Hello *, From: Jürgen Schmidt [mailto:jogischm...@gmail.com] No easy to answer when or if this will be integrated at all. We have spend some time to integrate 2 use cases of this project and spend many many time on it to make it complete (our work is already merged in LO). The patches

Re: Improved OOXML support?

2014-10-21 Thread BRM
On Tuesday, October 21, 2014 4:41 AM, Jörg Schmidt joe...@j-m-schmidt.de wrote: Hello *, From: Jürgen Schmidt [mailto:jogischm...@gmail.com] No easy to answer when or if this will be integrated at all. We have spend some time to integrate 2 use cases of this project and spend

Re: Improved OOXML support?

2014-10-21 Thread Jürgen Lange
Hi Ben, you make me laugh. At the very moment Apache OpenOffice is far behind LibreOffice if you look at interoperability to Microsoft products. Last week I tried to load an Excel sheet (with pivo) into Apache OpenOffice 4.1.1. Loading stopped and AOO hang. It was no problem to load this

Re: Improved OOXML support?

2014-10-21 Thread Jörg Schmidt
From: BRM [mailto:bm_witn...@yahoo.com.INVALID] Unfortunately that will always be the state of OOXML integration for anyone other than Microsoft since OOXML is a poorly defined standard that relies on many binary extensions that are not published. Kind of like the old DOC/XLS/PPT/MDB