Hi :)
MSO 2007 and 2010 can save as Pdf or rather
File - Export to Pdf
but it's very limited compared to LO's.  With LO's you can choose a range of 
options such as tagged (or not), 1a, compression rate or even uncompressed, 
type of compression (defaults to the standard jpg), set the dpi for images, 
blah, balh, blah and blah, and even to sneakily include the odf inside the pdf 
so that other LO users can edit it easily.  With MSO you don't get any options 
and it just gets compressed using jpg messiness.  
Regards from
Tom :)  


--- On Tue, 14/8/12, webmaster-Kracked_P_P <[email protected]> wrote:

From: webmaster-Kracked_P_P <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] MSO 2013 article - MSO will read/write ODF1.2 
and change formatting of .docx files again
To: [email protected]
Date: Tuesday, 14 August, 2012, 21:55

On 08/14/2012 12:11 PM, James Knott wrote:
> webmaster-Kracked_P_P wrote:
>> 
>> This article may be interesting to read by some of this lists users.  It 
>> seems that MSO 2013 will read/write ODF 1.2 formats and their older OOXML 
>> formats will not be changed to Strict Open XML formats [so .docx will change 
>> format again].  Also Excel will be using OpenFormula, it claims.  It will 
>> also be able to read/edit/save PDF files. 
> 
> Not writing ODF 1.1 is a good thing, given how badly it was implemented in MS 
> Office.  Also, I understand that Strict Open XML means getting rid of the 
> proprietary stuff that made it difficult for other office suites to implement.
> 
> 
Yes not saving to 1.1 will be good in the long run for people who wish to get 
businesses to use ODF instead of MSO's XML formats.

Still, the move to make their XML formats use Strict Open XML will make MSO 
2013 not readable with MSO 2007 and 2010 package, or as least I have read 
before.  Hopefully it does remove the "undocumented" proprietary "stuff" from 
within their XML formats so it would be easier to create the needed filters to 
read/write MSO 2013's XML files.  We still need to keep 2010 and 2007 XML file 
filters updated for those users.

OpenFormula may make it easier to use Excel '13 files with Calc.  Calc does 
support OpenFormula, right?

Actually I did not know that MSO 2010 saved files as PDF, but the article 
states that 2007 and 2010 both do.  Still I would keep a PDF print driver to be 
able to create PDFs from the non-office documents [neither MSO or LO 
documents].  CUPS-PDF for Linux [on Ubuntu for me] and the free "doPDF" 
software-printer for Windows [on XP and Vista for me] work fine for that.



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