I think this discussion is useful for all to now take it to another level. That of the need to have the ODF as a national standard. Can I ask LUGS (and slugnet subscribers) to read up and participate in the local standards bodies (www.itsc.org.sg) specifically the subcommittee on XML? It is crucial that we have people participate in these so that we can ensure that: a) ODF gets to be a Singapore national standard b) MS OOXML does not become an ISO standard.
Someone replied on this thread saying:
But I am aware that there is work being done to create a new chart module and this should make it in time for OOo 2.3 release in Sep. Nt sure how compatible it will be with Excel though.
Excel does stuff in a proprietary manner. I am very sure that what Stephan experienced with the long file opening and CPU utilization is because oo.o was possibly thrown into a spin because of the hidden and undocumented Excel format. Perhaps oo.o was trying to do too much, perhaps it was that gnumeric had a simpler implementation (or more correct) of the reverse engineered Excel format. If we had a publish and open standard for document formats we do not need to be having this discussion. We will naturally gravitate to the best implementation. Right now, it is not easily doable. I have received fairly complicated Excel spreadsheets from and oo.o did struggle to open it up. What I had to do was ask the sender to either save it as a rtf or use oo.o on windows to read/save as sxc. In all the instances, after the initial shock that "what you don't use office?", they appreciated what I was trying to do. Harish _______________________________________________ Slugnet mailing list [email protected] http://www.lugs.org.sg/mailman/listinfo/slugnet
