RE: [OOo-Hebrew] OO compatibility with MS-Office

On Sun, 4 Feb 2007, Ami Shlezinger wrote:

> Date: Sun, 4 Feb 2007 15:12:00 +0200
> From: Ami Shlezinger <[email protected]>
> To: Jonathan Ben Avraham <[email protected]>
> Cc: Tomer Gabel <[email protected]>, [email protected]
> Subject: RE: [OOo-Hebrew] OO compatibility with MS-Office
> 
> Hi yba
>
> As far as I understand Open Document is the default file format for OO 
> (maybe not the native). Since I moved to OO2 I (and almost anybody else 
> I know use the ODF) I save files only in ODF formats. SXW format is used 
> only for backward compatability. ODF is one of the major advantages of 
> OO.
>
> Ami

Hi Ami,
We are looking into the code of 2.1 and speaking with the developers in 
Hamburg in order to understand to what degree OOo 2.X actually uses ODT as 
the "native" format. The fact that the default file format for saving 
documents changed to ODT in 2.X does not mean much in itself. It could be 
just a change in the .xml setup files and not a change in the code. It 
could also the case that even if the change is in the code that saves 
to files and loads from file you still get better results using .sxw 
instead of .odt because the conversion from the in-RAM document 
representation to the on-disk ODT representation is not yet correct 
(especially with regard to RTL behavior), or because there are some 
elements of the in-RAM representation that do not map to anything in ODT. 
I hope to have an answer for you in the next week.
Regards,

   - yba



> -----הודעה מקורית-----
> מאת: Jonathan Ben Avraham [mailto:[email protected]]
> נשלח: א 04/02/2007 14:22
> אל: Ami Shlezinger
> עותק לידיעה: Tomer Gabel; [email protected]
> נושא: RE: [OOo-Hebrew] OO compatibility with MS-Office
>
> Hi Ami,
> The project mentioned in the link is the docx-odt translator. This has
> little to do with MS Office OOo compatability.
>
> The OOo native format is not ODT. To use ODT with OOo you actually use
> filters like the .DOC filters. So using the docx-odt project with OOo
> means that you do double translation, doc->odt->sxw, instead of the
> current single translation doc->sxw when opening MS Office documents. Hard
> for me to beleive that this will offer any improvement. If anything, it
> will make the situation worse, at least initially.
>
> Alan?
>
>   - yba
>
>
> On Sun, 4 Feb 2007, Ami Shlezinger wrote:
>
>> Date: Sun, 4 Feb 2007 13:57:53 +0200
>> From: Ami Shlezinger <[email protected]>
>> To: Tomer Gabel <[email protected]>, [email protected]
>> Subject: RE: [OOo-Hebrew] OO compatibility with MS-Office
>>
>> PLease look at  : http://www.informationweek.com/industries/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=197002933
>> Ami
>>
>>
>> -----הודעה מקורית-----
>> מאת: [email protected] בשם Tomer Gabel
>> נשלח: א 04/02/2007 13:40
>> אל: [email protected]
>> נושא: RE: [OOo-Hebrew] OO compatibility with MS-Office
>>
>> I don't know which package you mean specifically, but the "vanilla"
>> OpenOffice.org interoperates VERY well with Word, Excel and PowerPoint -- so
>>
>> well that it's become a staple of our business. Give it a whirl, I doubt
>> you'd be disappointed.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Tomer
>>
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: [email protected]
>> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Dan Avni
>> Sent: Sunday, February 04, 2007 1:31 PM
>> To: Jonathan Ben Avraham
>> Cc: [email protected]
>> Subject: RE: [OOo-Hebrew] OO compatibility with MS-Office
>>
>> Don't remember. That is why my question is so unfocused. It was at least 4
>> months ago on a web site I browsed
>>
>>
>> Dani Avni
>> OfficeCore.com
>> 	+972-3-9102286
>> 	+972-54-4857019
>> 	+972-3-9102289
>> 	http://www.officecore.co.il
>> 	http://www.smscenter.co.il
>> "You cannot achieve the impossible without attempting the absurd."
>>
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Jonathan Ben Avraham [mailto:[email protected]]
>> Sent: Sunday, February 04, 2007 1:18 PM
>> To: Dan Avni
>> Cc: [email protected]
>> Subject: Re: [OOo-Hebrew] OO compatibility with MS-Office
>>
>> Hi Dan,
>> This is news to me. Where did you see this?
>>
>>  - yba
>>
>>
>> On Sun, 4 Feb 2007, Dan Avni wrote:
>>
>>> Date: Sun, 4 Feb 2007 11:57:00 +0200
>>> From: Dan Avni <[email protected]>
>>> To: [email protected]
>>> Subject: [OOo-Hebrew] OO compatibility with MS-Office
>>>
>>> A few months ago I read somewhere that a software package for OO
>>> Hebrew is going to be released to better support document interchange
>>> between MS-Office and OO. It was said the software package will be
>>> released around January 2007. does anyone have any idea where I can
>>> find this software and when will it be released?
>>>
>>> Dani Avni
>>> "You cannot achieve the impossible without attempting the absurd."
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>
>

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