List of software that supports OpenDocument
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This is an overview of software support for the OpenDocument format, an open document file format for saving and exchanging editable office documents.
The list here is not exhaustive. Another list of supporting or partial implementations of the OpenDocument format can be found on OpenDocument Fellowship website, but it too is not exhaustive.
Current support
A number of applications support the OASIS Open Document Format for Office Applications; listed alphabetically they include:
Text documents (.odt)
Word processors
- Abiword 2.4+ (reading from 2.4, import and export from 2.4.2)[1] (as of version 2.6.4 Abisoft installations for Windows require separate download and installation of plugins)
- Adobe Buzzword beta, a web-based word processor has limited ODF support owing to its beta status[2][3]
- Atlantis Word Processor 1.6.5+ can import ODT documents[4]
- Celframe Office Write 2008 supports ODF text documents.[5][6]
- eyeOS Cloud computing operating system with eyeDocs Word Processor has basic support for ODF text documents.[7]
- Google Docs, a web-based word processor and spreadsheet application derived from the application Writely.[8]
- IBM Lotus Symphony Documents 1.0+ (OpenOffice.org 1.0 derivative)[9]
- IBM Lotus Notes 8.0+ includes an office suite for creating text, spreadsheet and presentation files[10]
- JustSystems Ichitaro (Japanese), read/write support via plug-in from version 2006, full built-in support from 2007[11]
- KWord 1.4+ (full native support since 1.5)[12]
- Microsoft Word native support since Office 2007 SP2 (support for previous versions is available through several plugins)
- Sun ODF Plugin for Microsoft Office
- Microsoft OpenXML/ODF Translator Add-in for Office http://odf-converter.sourceforge.net/
- Currently no ODF support on the Mac OS X version of Microsoft Office.
- Mobile Office, an office package for Symbian mobile phones
- Microsoft WordPad included with Windows 7 has limited support for opening and saving in the odt format.[13]
- Nisus Writer Pro 1.2+[14] for Mac OS X
- OpenOffice.org Writer - full support from 2.0[15], import-only in 1.1.5[16]
- Butler Office Pro, commercial [17]
- NeoOffice Writer - full support from 2.0[18](OpenOffice.org 2.0.3 derivative), import only in 1.2.2[19](OpenOffice.org 1.1.5 derivate)[20]
- NextOffice 9.3 (OpenOffice.org 3 variant with support for Asian languages and some Asian software)[21]
- StarOffice 8+ Writer (OpenOffice.org 2.0 derivative)[22]
- RedOffice, (Chinese OpenOffice.org variant with different interface)[23]
- Schreiben 4.0.1, a simple word processor for Mac OS X 10.5 has basic support for ODT documents.[24]
- TextEdit, (In Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard) can read/write ODT format but does not retain all formatting[25]
- Bean 1.1.0+, basic word processor with limited ODF support implemented in Mac OS X[26]
- TextMaker 2006 (previously import only; export available starting with revision 467)[27]
- WordPerfect Office (import-only in X4)[28]
- Zoho Writer, an online word processor, can read and write ODT format[29]
Other applications
- Apple Inc.'s Quick Look, the built-in quick preview feature of Mac OS X, supports OpenDocument format files starting with Mac OS X v10.5. Support is limited to basic ODF implementation in Mac OS X.
- BatchPurifier — batch metadata removal tool that supports OpenDocument.
- Oxygen XML Editor 9.3+ allows users to extract, validate, edit, transform (using XSLT or XQuery) to other file formats, compare and process the XML data stored in OpenDocument files. Validation uses the latest ODF Documents version 1.1 Relax NG Schemas.[30]
- IBM WebSphere Portal 6.0.1+ can preview texts from ODT files as HTML documents[31]
- IBM Lotus Domino 8.0+ KeyView (10.4.0.0) filter supports ODT, ODS, ODP for viewing files [32]
- MetadataTouch — multi-format metadata editor that supports OpenDocument.
- Zamzar.com is a free online file conversion service for converting OpenDocument text, spreadsheet and presentation documents to many other formats. It can also convert many different file formats to OpenDocument format.[33]
Data management
- eLawOffice.it 0.9.6.4, Law Firms cross-platform Java GPL application (client-server). It uses OpenDocument templates to generate OpenDocument documents with data merged from application databases such as customer name, address etc
- phpMyAdmin 2.9.0+ - database manager, exports to ODT[34]
Text management
- Dokuwiki — wiki software, exports to ODT with the odt plugin.
- eZ publish — content management system, supports import and export of writer documents via extension [35][36]
- OpenDocument Viewer beta 2 — multiplatform ODF viewer for ODT, ODS, ODP. Support is still incomplete.
- Peepel Online Office Suite WebWriter - a web-based word processor has ODT import/export support[37]
- Scribus 1.2.2+ — desktop publishing suite, imports ODT[38]
- SoftMaker TextMaker Viewer — document viewer, supports ODT[39]
- Visioo Writer 0.6.1 (in development) — document viewer, incomplete support[40]
- VisorODF 0.5 beta (in development) — ODF viewer for devices supporting Java ME
Translation support
- OmegaT+ — Free computer assisted translation tools platform Cross-platform (Java).
- OmegaT — OmegaT is a free translation memory application written in Java.
- Swordfish — Swordfish is a cross-platform Computer Aided Translation (CAT) tool based on XLIFF 1.2. open standard.
- Translate Toolkit — converts OpenDocument into XLIFF 1.2 for localisation in any XLIFF aware CAT tool.
Bibliographic
- RefWorks - Web-based commercial citation manager, supports uploading ODT files for citation formatting.
Spreadsheet documents (.ods)
Spreadsheets
- Butler Office Pro, commercial use [17]
- Celframe Office Spreadsheet 2008 supports ODF spreadsheet documents.[5][6]
- EditGrid, a web-based (online) spreadsheet service - full support.[41]
- Gnumeric 1.7+, still incomplete support for reading and writing OpenDocument Spreadsheet files (ODS).[42]
- Google Docs, a web-based word processor and spreadsheet application which can read and save OpenDocument files.[8]
- GS-Calc, native support since GS-Calc 8.0.
- IBM Lotus Symphony Spreadsheets 1.0+ (OpenOffice.org 1.0 derivative)[9]
- IBM Lotus Notes 8.0+ includes an office suite for creating text, spreadsheet and presentation files[10]
- Peepel Online Office Suite WebSheet - a web-based spreadsheet that support online and offline modes has ODT import/export support[37]
- JustSystems JUST Suite 2009 Sanshiro (Japanese) [43]
- KSpread (basic support in 1.4.x, native support in 1.5 onwards)[12]
- Microsoft Excel has native support for ODF since Excel 2007 Service Pack 2. When writing formulas Excel uses the spreadsheet formula language specified in ISO/IEC 29500 (Office Open XML) which differs from the draft OpenFormula format used in other ODF implementations.[44]
- Earlier versions of Microsoft Excel support OpenDocument with Sun ODF Plugin for Microsoft Office
- Partial support also with Microsoft OpenXML/ODF Translator Add-in for Office
- Mobile Office, an office package for Symbian mobile phones
- NextOffice 9.3 (OpenOffice.org 3 variant with support for Asian languages and some Asian software)[21]
- OpenOffice.org Calc - full support from 2.0[15], import-only in 1.1.5[16]
- RedOffice, (Chinese OpenOffice.org variant)[23]
- Tables, spreadsheet editor for Mac OS X, has support for OpenDocument format.[45][46] Version 1.5 offers an improved importer and a new exporter for the OpenDocument format [47]
- Zoho Sheet, an online spreadsheet application, can import and export ODS format[48]
Other applications
- BatchPurifier — batch metadata removal tool that supports OpenDocument.
- Oxygen XML Editor 9.3+ allows users to extract, validate, edit, transform (using XSLT or XQuery) to other file formats, compare and process the XML data stored in OpenDocument files. Validation uses the latest ODF Documents version 1.1 Relax NG Schemas.[30]
- IBM WebSphere Portal 6.0.1+ can preview texts from ODS files as HTML documents[31]
- MetadataTouch — multi-format metadata editor that supports OpenDocument.
Data management
- phpMyAdmin 2.9.0+ - database manager, exports to ODS[34]
- OpenDocument Viewer beta 2 - multiplatform ODF viewer for ODT, ODS, ODP. Support is still incomplete.
- VFP Developer Studio actually in beta. Can export any table from several sources (dbf, ODBC, ADO.NET) into ODS version 1.2
Knowledge management
Statistics
- gretl 1.7.0 - Statistical analysis software (import only)
Translation support
- OmegaT+ — Free computer-assisted translation tools platform Cross-platform (Java).
- OmegaT — OmegaT is a free translation memory application written in Java.[49]
- Swordfish — Swordfish is a cross-platform Computer Aided Translation (CAT) tool based on XLIFF 1.2. open standard.
- Translate Toolkit — converts OpenDocument into XLIFF 1.2 for localisation in any XLIFF aware CAT tool.
Presentation documents (.odp)
- Butler Office Pro, commercial use[17]
- Celframe Office Power Presentation 2008 supports ODF presentation documents.[5][6]
- IBM Lotus Symphony Presentations 1.0+ (OpenOffice.org 1.0 derivative)[9]
- IBM Lotus Notes 8.0+ includes an office suite for creating text, spreadsheet and presentation files[10]
- JustSystems JUST Suite 2009 Agree (Japanese) [50]
- KPresenter (basic support in 1.4.x, native support in 1.5 onwards)[12]
- Microsoft PowerPoint native support since Office 2007 SP2 (support for previous versions is available through several plugins)
- Sun ODF Plugin for Microsoft Office
- Microsoft OpenXML/ODF Translator Add-in for Office
- Mobile Office, an office package for Symbian mobile phones
- NextOffice 9.3 (OpenOffice.org 3 variant with support for Asian languages and some Asian software)[21]
- OpenOffice.org Impress - native support from 2.0[15], import-only in 1.1.5[16]
- NeoOffice 1.2 Impress (OpenOffice 1.1.5 derivative)
- NeoOffice 2.0 Impress (OpenOffice 2.0.3 derivative)
- StarOffice 8 Impress (OpenOffice 2.0 derivative)
- RedOffice, (Chinese OpenOffice.org variant)[23]
- Zoho Show, an online presentation program, can import/export ODP format files
Other applications
- BatchPurifier — batch metadata removal tool that supports OpenDocument.
- Oxygen XML Editor 9.3+ allows users to extract, validate, edit, transform (using XSLT or XQuery) to other file formats, compare and process the XML data stored in OpenDocument files. Validation uses the latest ODF Documents version 1.1 Relax NG Schemas.[30]
- IBM WebSphere Portal 6.0.1+ can preview texts from ODP files as HTML documents[31]
- MetadataTouch — multi-format metadata editor that supports OpenDocument.
Translation support
- OmegaT+ — Free computer-assisted translation tools platform Cross-platform (Java).
- OmegaT — OmegaT is a free translation memory application written in Java.
- Swordfish — Swordfish is a cross-platform Computer-Aided Translation (CAT) tool based on XLIFF 1.2. open standard.
Graphics documents (.odg)
- Karbon14 1.5+ (import and export) — vector graphics editor[51]
- JustSystems JUST Suite 2008+ Hanako (Japanese) [52]
- OpenOffice.org Draw - full support from 2.0[15], import-only in 1.1.5[16]
- Scribus 1.2.2+ (import only) — Desktop publishing application[38]
- Inkscape 0.44+ (export only) — vector graphics editor[53]
Other applications
- IBM WebSphere Portal 6.0.1+ can preview texts from ODG files as HTML documents[31]
Formula documents (.odf)
- KFormula 1.5+ (full native support)
- OpenOffice.org Math (full support from 2.0)
- NeoOffice 2.0 Math (OpenOffice 2.0.3 derivative)
Search tools
- Google supports searching in content of ODT, ODS, and ODP files and also searching for these filetypes. Found files can be viewed directly in a converted HTML view.[54]
- Beagle, Linux desktop search engine. Indexes and searches multiple file formats, including OpenDocument files.
- Google Desktop Search has an unofficial OpenDocument plug-in available, supporting ODT, OTT, ODG, OTG, ODP, OTP, ODS, OTS, and ODF OpenDocument formats. The plug-in does not correctly handle Unicode characters
- Apple Spotlight (built into OS X 10.4 and later) supports indexed searching of OpenDocument files using a third-party plug-in from the NeoOffice team.
- Copernic Desktop Search (Windows)
Other planned support
- Ability Office developers declared planned ODF support for the next major version of their office suite[55]
- Evermore Integrated Office - EIOffice 2009 will support ODF in the update[56]. As stated on Evermore Software website: "Work is underway to both read and write to this new format as well as *.pdf and *.odf file formats in the update." Last version of EIOffice 2009 (5.0.1272.101EN.L1) cannot open or save ODF files.
- Haansoft's Hangul Word Processor will support OpenDocument format documents in its next version for Windows, which is planned for the end of 2009.[57]
- An extension for Mozilla Firefox has been proposed by a developer named Talin, according to Mozilla hacker Gervase Markham (source); it has since been further modified by Alex Hudson[58] and was hosted in the official Firefox extension repository.[59]
- Wikipedia announced that it will use ODF for printing wikis.
- BlackBerry smartphones are going to support ODF in their embedded office suites, starting mid-2009.[60]
- The WordPad editor in Windows 7 already includes support for ODF.[60]
Programmatic support, filters, converters
OpenDocument packages are ordinary zip files. There is an OpenDocument format which is just a single XML file, but most applications use the package format. Thus, any of the vast number of tools for handling zip files and XML data can be used to handle OpenDocument. Nearly all programming languages have libraries (built-in or available) for processing XML files and zip files.
The following are some programs or programming libraries that provide specialized support for OpenDocument:
- Some Perl extensions for OpenDocument file processing are available in CPAN packages, such as OpenOffice::OODoc, OpenOffice::OOCBuilder, OpenOffice::OOSheets, PBib::Document::OpenOffice, and others. These libraries enable Perl programs to retrieve, create, update or delete almost any piece of data (including text content, non-textual objects, and style definitions) in documents, and to create new documents from scratch.
- lpOD (lpOD -- languages & platforms OpenDocument) Definition of a Free Software API implementing the ISO/IEC 26300 standard. Development and validation, for higher level use cases, of a set of top-down APIs in Python, Perl and Ruby languages for ODT, ODS and ODP. To illustrate some typical features of the python API a CookBook and a set of command line tools to manipulate various spreadsheet (ODS), presentation (ODP), and text (ODT) document contents is provide.
- POD (Python Open Document) defines a very simple way to insert special statements and expressions (written in Python) in an OpenDocument Text (ODT) file. The POD library can then generate documents whose content may be enriched from any program written in Python. This is the principle of dynamic HTML applied to OpenDocument, with the use of POD requiring no knowledge of OpenDocument: the POD user writes his dynamic OpenDocument files in his word processor (OpenOffice, KOffice, etc) directly.
- odf-converter-integrator is a crossplatform program which enables Microsoft Office 2007 files to be opened (.docx, .xlsx, pptx) in any OpenOffice.org program.
- Docvert is a PHP-based converter for converting OpenDocument to XML and any HTML.
- jOpenDocument is a pure Java library for OpenDocument file manipulation. It includes a standalone spreadsheet viewer.
- ODF Toolkit provides libraries (Java and .NET) that ease the development of applications that support ODF.
- OpenDocumentPHP is a PHP solution for manipulating ODF files.
- Aspose.Words is a component/library available for both .NET and Java platforms which enables opening and saving OpenDocument (ODT) documents.
- JODReports is a report generator using ODF documents as templates. Developed in Java, it can be used in an application server and from the command line.
- odf-xslt is a small and simple PHP solution to generate ODF reports, invoices and other documents from XML with ODF documents as templates. Developed for Linux, and can be used on Windows. It has both a PHP API and Command Line support.
- OpenDocument is a PHP PEAR package developed as a project in the Google Summer of Code Program.
- Docmosis is a Java library which can generate reports from templates. It manipulates ODF content and can read and write a variety of formats.
- ODFTRANS central service to convert proprietary office files into the open document format (ODF) and vice versa. Based on eMail2PDF, email-based PDF conversion. Users send their documents to ODFTrans by email, and ODFTrans swiftly replies with the converted document(s) attached. It supports text documents, spreadsheets and presentations.[61]
- Jing, a RELAX NG validator in Java can be used for validation of OpenDocument format documents. Reading some instructions is recommended before using [62]
- docbook2odf is a toolkit that automatically converts DocBook to OASIS OpenDocument (ODF, the ISO standardized format used for texts, spreadsheets and presentations). Conversion is based on a XSLT which makes it easy to convert DocBook->ODF, ODT, ODS and ODP as all these documents are XML based.
- Cyclone3 ODFValidator is Fellowship's ODF Validation Service, a free service that checks OpenDocument files for conformance with the ODF specification.
- GemBox.Spreadsheet is a .NET component/library which enables C# and VB.NET developers to read, write or convert OpenDocument spreadsheet (.ODS files) in addition to XLS, CSV, XSLX and HTML.
- odtPHP is a program that allows generating OpenDocument files from PHP.
Microsoft
In October 2005, one year before the Microsoft Office 2007 suite was released, Microsoft declared that there is not sufficient demand from Microsoft customers for international standard OpenDocument format support and therefore it will not be included in Microsoft Office 2007. This statement was repeated also in next months.[63][64][65][66] As an answer, on October 20, 2005 an online petition was created to demand ODF support from Microsoft.[67] The petition was signed by circa 12000 people.[68]
In May 2006, ODF plugin for Microsoft Office was released by OpenDocument Foundation.[69] Microsoft declared, that the company did not work with the developers of the plug-in.[70]
In July 2006 Microsoft announced the creation of the Open XML Translator project - tools to build a technical bridge between the Microsoft Office Open XML Formats and the OpenDocument Format (ODF). This work was started in response to government requests for interoperability with ODF. The goal of project is not to implement ODF direct to Microsoft Office, but only to create plugin and external tools.[71][72] In February 2007, this project released first version of ODF plug-in for Microsoft Word.[73]
In February 2007 SUN released initial version of SUN ODF plugin for Microsoft Office.[74] Version 1.0 was released in July 2007.[75]
Microsoft Office 2007 Service Pack 2 was released on 28 April 2009.[76] It added native support of OpenDocument as well as other formats like XPS and PDF.[77][78]
Microsoft has financed the creation of an Open XML translator,[79] to enable the conversion of documents between Office Open XML and OpenDocument. The project, hosted on SourceForge, is an effort by several of Microsoft's partners to create a plugin for Microsoft Office that will be freely available under a BSD license. By December 2007, plugins had been released for Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel and Microsoft PowerPoint. Independent analysis has, however, reported several concerns with these plugins, including lack of support for Office 2007.[80]
Third party support: Two ODF plug-ins for Microsoft Office
There are currently two third-party plug-ins:
- Sun Microsystems' ODF Plugin for Microsoft Office users [81] - gives users of Microsoft Office Word, Excel and PowerPoint the ability to read, edit and save to the ISO-standard Open Document Format (ODF). It works with Microsoft Office 2007 (with service pack 1 or higher), Microsoft Office 2003, Microsoft Office XP, and even Microsoft Office 2000.[82][83]
- ooo-word-filter [84] - enables users of Microsoft Word 2003 to open OpenDocument files.
A third plug-in, OpenOpenOffice (O3) [85], is apparently inactive. OpenOpenOffice was developed by Phase-n, a free and open source software plug-in to enable Microsoft Office to read and write OpenDocument files (and any other formats supported by OpenOffice.org). Instead of installing a complete office application or even a large plug-in, O3 intended to install a tiny plug-in to the Microsoft Office system. This tiny plug-in intended to automatically send the file to some server, which would then do the conversion, returning the converted file. The server could be local to an organization (so private information doesn't go over the Internet) or accessed via the Internet (for those who do not want to set up a server). A beta of the server half has been completed, and further expected announcements have not occurred. Phase-n argued that the main advantage of their approach is simplicity. Their website [86] announces that O3 “requires no new concepts to be explored, no significant development, and leverages the huge existing body of work already created by the OpenOffice.org developers, the CPAN module authors, and the Microsoft .NET and Office teams. They also argue that this approach significantly simplifies maintenance; when a new version of OpenOffice.org is released, only the server needs to be upgraded.
A fourth plug-in was announced by the OpenDocument Foundation in May 2006[87] but development was stopped in October 2007.[88]
Microsoft Office 2007 SP2 support controversy
Microsoft supports OpenDocument format in Office 2007 SP2[89]. The current implementation faces criticism for not supporting encrypted documents and formula format in the same way as other OpenDocument-compatible software, as well as for stripping out formulas in imported spreadsheets created by other OpenDocument-compatible software. [90] [91] Critics say that with this conflict of standards Microsoft actually managed to reduce interoperability between office productivity software.[44][91][92] The company had previously reportedly stated that "where ODF 1.1 is ambiguous or incomplete, the Office implementation can be guided by current practice in OpenOffice.org, mainly, and other implementations including KOffice and AbiWord. Peter Amstein and the Microsoft Office team are reluctant to make liberal use of extension mechanisms, even though provided in ODF 1.1. They want to avoid all appearance of an embrace-extend attempt." [93] However, according to the ODF Alliance, "ODF spreadsheets created in Excel 2007 SP2 do not in fact conform to ODF 1.1 because Excel 2007 incorrectly encodes formulas with cell addresses. Section 8.3.1 of ODF 1.1 says that addresses in formulas "start with a "[" and end with a "]"." In Excel 2007 cell addresses were not enclosed with the necessary square brackets, which could be easily corrected." [90] This however has been contested as the ISO/IEC 26300 specification states that the semantics and the syntax is dependant on the used namespace which is implementation dependent leaving the syntax implementation defined as well.[94]
Before SP2, Microsoft had sponsored the creation of the Open XML translator[79] project to allow the conversion of documents between OOXML and OpenDocument. As a result of this project, Microsoft financed the ODF add-in for Word project on SourceForge. This project is an effort by several of Microsoft's partners to create a plugin for Microsoft Office that will be freely available under a BSD license. The project released version 1.0 for Microsoft Word of this software in January 2007 followed by versions for Microsoft Excel and Microsoft PowerPoint in December of the same year. Sun Microsystems has created the competing OpenDocument plugin for Microsoft Office 2007 (Service Pack 1 or higher), 2000, XP, and 2003 that supports Word, Excel, and PowerPoint documents.[83] The ODF Alliance has claimed that third-party plug-ins “provide better support for ODF than the recently released Microsoft Office 2007 SP2”. [90]
Accessibility
One important issue raised in the discussion of OpenDocument is whether the format is accessible to those with disabilities. There are two issues: does the specification support accessibility, and are implementations accessible?
Specification
While the specification of OpenDocument is going through an extensive accessibility review, many of the components it is built on (such as SMIL for audio and multimedia and SVG for vector graphics) have already gone through the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)'s Web Accessibility Initiative processes.
There are already applications that currently read/write OpenDocument that export Tagged PDF files (to support PDF accessibility); this suggests that much or all of the necessary data for accessibility is already included in the OpenDocument format.
The OASIS OpenDocument technical committee released a draft of OpenDocument 1.1 on 2006-07-27, for public comment through 2006-09-25.[95] This is a very minor update to the specification to add accessibility information, mainly soft page break markings, table header markings, presentation navigation markings, alternative text and captions, and specifically stating that spreadsheets may be embedded in presentations. Peter Korn (an accessibility expert) reviewed version 1.1 “to satisfy myself that all of our accessibility concerns have been addressed”, and declared “I am so satisfied.”[96][97]
Implementations
Peter Korn gave an in-depth report[98] on OpenDocument accessibility. He noted that there are many kinds of impairments, including visual (minor, major, or blind), physical (minor, major with vocal control, major without vocal control), auditory, and cognitive. He then noted that the situation varies, depending on the specific disability. For a vast number of disabilities, there are no known problems, though.
- OpenOffice.org is expected to work well with existing solutions in MS Windows' on-screen keyboards (etc.) when driven by single-switch access, head-mouse, and eye-gaze systems. On Unix-like systems, GNOME's “On-screen Keyboard” goes far beyond Microsoft Windows' capabilities, because it can use the GNOME accessibility project architecture. Also available on both Linux and Windows systems is Dasher, a GPLed text-entry alternative for head-mouse and eye-gaze users (35+ word-per-minute typing speeds using nothing but eye movement are possible).
- If those with disabilities are already using Microsoft Office, then a plug-in enabling them to load and save OpenDocument files using Microsoft Office may give them the same capabilities they already have (assuming the opening/saving cycle is accessible). So from that perspective, OpenDocument is at least as accessible as Microsoft Office. The primary problem is that Microsoft Windows does not have a real accessibility infrastructure compared to UNIX-like systems with GNOME, the Java platform, or Mac OS X.
- For users using alternatives to Microsoft Office there may be problems, not necessarily due to the ODF file format but rather due to the lower investment to date by assistive technology vendors on these platforms, though there is ongoing work. For example, IBM has stated that its “Workplace productivity tools available through Workplace Managed Client including word processing, spreadsheet and presentation editors are currently planned to be fully accessible on a Windows platform by 2007. Additionally, these productivity tools are currently planned to be fully accessible on a Linux platform by 2008” (Sutor, November 10, 2005).
It is important to note that since OpenDocument is an Open Standard file format, there is no need for everyone to use the same program to read and write OpenDocument files; someone with a disability is free to use whatever program works best for them.
See also
External links
- Application support for ODF (OpenDocument Fellowship).
- Forum Debate a lively and informative ongoing debate about whether or not a word processor application should adopt the OpenDocument format.
- Open Interoperative Document Initiative An organization dedicated to the promotion of open and interoperative formats for all media types. (Wiki, Articles, Forums, Links and FAQs).
- Berlind, David (October 25, 2005). Corel confirms OpenDocument commitment. Novell's "in" too.
- Groklaw's ODF Resources.
- Sutor, Bob. The ODF thread in the Open Blog.
- Sutor, Bob. Dr. ODF: Examining OpenDocument Format with Python, Parts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6.
- Updegrove, Andy. Standards Blog at consortiuminfo.org, timely and thorough coverage of ODF issues especially relating to adoption by the state of Massachusetts.
- Vaughan-Nichols, Steven J. (September 28, 2005). WordPerfect Will Support OpenDocument - Someday. eWeek.
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- ^ a b c NeoOffice 1.2.2 Release notes
- ^ a b c NeoOffice file formats
- ^ a b c NextOffice
- ^ a b c [11]StarOffice 8 reviews
- ^ a b c RedOffice features
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- ^ KeyView filter formats supported[22], LotusNotes, Domino, Domino DesignerRelease Notes Version 8.0.2
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- ^ Tables 1.5 - what is new
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A test spreadsheet created in Google Docs, KSpread, Symphony, OpenOffice, and the Sun Plug-In 3.0 for MS Office, for example, when loaded in MS Excel 2007, failed to process correctly. This is because the formulas used to perform calculations within a spreadsheet (e.g., adding numbers in a column of cells) are simply removed in MS Excel 2007. Instead of performing the calculations, what is left is when the spreadsheet is loaded in MS Excel 2007 is the last value that cell had, when previously saved. The same test spreadsheet, when loaded and saved in all the other applications besides MS Excel 2007 (e.g., between KSpread and Google Docs), does process correctly. Most other ODF spreadsheet applications are able to interoperate just fine. The correct approach would have been for Microsoft to do the same to ensure that MS Office users can share spreadsheets with other ODF-supporting office suites.
Cite error: The named reference "sp2-fact-sheet" was defined multiple times with different content (see the help page). - ^ a b "In Office SP2, Microsoft manages to reduce interoperability". zdnet. 2006-05-19. Retrieved 2009-05-21.
Yet Microsoft Office SP2 claims to have a fully compliant version of ODF, and that's probably true, as defined by the specification. It's just completely useless at interoperating with other vendors' products. This is not interoperability, it's an attack on the very concept.
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