On 05/09/2008 12:01 PM, M Henri Day wrote:
> Here a link (http://tinyurl.com/3ja7xy) to a recent InfoWorld article which
> claims that OOo 3.0b has significant problems dealing with MS Office 2007
> xml files. Have other users who've tested OOo 3.0b also found this to be the
> case ? As the beta is not (yet ?) available in a 64-bit version, I've not
> had the opportunity to test it myself....
> 
> Henri
> 

Interesting... I've just tested the rtf spec in docx
(Word2007RTFSpec9.docx):

<http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=DD422B8D-FF06-4207-B476-6B5396A18A2B&displaylang=en>
<http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=DD422B8D-FF06-4207-B476-6B5396A18A2B&displaylang=en#filelist>

In both 3.0Beta (linux) and Go-oo 2.4 (Windows)[1] and find that the
3.0Beta does a rather nice job. Go-oo doesn't convert the tables
properly, 3.0Beta does. On the otherhand, Go-oo renders the page 1
graphic just fine, 3.0Beta does not. It's easy to compare the two as
I've two systems & monitors running side-by-side, so I can scroll
through each page on both.

Of particular interest is the table following the "Units" section only
renders as text, but in 3.0Beta it renders as a proper table. So I'm not
sure what happened with Neil McAllister's document (I note he didn't
include a sample), but the above sample (Word2007RTFSpec9.docx) opens
just fine (albeit a little slow) in 3.0Beta for me & appears identical
to the 11MB Word2007RTFSpec9.doc file.

I suppose like anything else docx related, there will always be some
differences between systems, apps (even MS apps), and converters, even
if MS actually do eventually get their Open XML "standard" fully published.


[1] http://go-oo.org/


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