James Knott wrote: > Manfred J. Krause wrote: >> Hi James, *, >> >> 2007/12/9, James Knott wrote: >> >>> Does anyone have a Word document in the new DOXC format that I can test >>> with? It doesn't have to be anything special. Just some text from >>> somewhere (such as this list), perhaps with a bit of formatting, saved >>> as DOCX. [...] >>> >> >> Please see -> >> <http://odf-converter.sourceforge.net/test-docs/docx/optional/> >> >> > > I decided to try a couple of experiments to see if I could open the new Word > DOCX files. I tried two methods. One was Novell's version of OpenOffice, as > included (and updated) in OpenSUSE 10.3. The other was to use Word > Viewer 2003 > and Compatibility Pack on XP. The Compatibility Pack is required, to > enable the > Word Viewer to open DOCX files. Using Word Viewer, the documents I obtained > looked normal. However, in OpenOffice the formating was off (i.e. single > line > spacing instead of double) and things like tables or images didn't make it, > though the table text did. So, it appears Novell's support allows little > more > than text recovery and features such as images and tables are not > supported. If > they provided that using the published OOXML specs, then perhaps those specs > need more work.
OOo will have a docx (and xlsx, pptx) import filter in OOo3.0 Beta in April 2008. We (mainly Sun developers, here and there with some help from some Novell developers) are still working on it and will continue to do so. I assume that what we will have in our Beta will be quite useful. I wouldn't waste my time with the current stopgag solutions. Ciao, Mathias -- Mathias Bauer (mba) - Project Lead OpenOffice.org Writer OpenOffice.org Engineering at Sun: http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS Please don't reply to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]". I use it for the OOo lists and only rarely read other mails sent to it. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
