On 07/07/2007 10:35 AM, Mathias Bauer wrote: > NoOp schrieb: >> >> Thanks for those links Mathias. >> >> However it seems to me that a lot of SUN development work is going into >> assisting *MS Office users* in reading ODF rather than OOo/StarOffice >> users being able to read and write MS Office 2007 documents. I'm sure >> that I'm wrong... perhaps you could point to some links where the >> develpment is going the other direction? > > There have been several blog entries in GullFOSS (see second link above) > about the ongoing filter work in Writer, Calc and Impress. > > You should see it that way: providing ODF filters for MSOffice was > comparably easy as we could reuse the existing code of the WorxelPoint > filters in OOo for that. In fact it didn't cost us a lot of extra > development work. > > But writing new filters for the O"O"XML format is much more work to do. > The specification is huge and it takes a lot of time to implement all > the bells and whistles that have been stuffed into it. If people say > that it is hard to implement this format and impossible to implement it > completely they do not exaggerate. We hope to have filters with a good > quality in the OOo 3.0 release (Beta in spring next year). > > Ciao, > Mathias >
Thanks (as usual :-) for the info Mathias. Gary --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
