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ODF 1.2 Word Clouds
I’ve been playing around today with a preview build of the ODF Java API ODFDOM 0.9. One of the capabilities we’re adding is a simple text extraction API. The idea is to have a very simple API, a...
View ArticleLibreOffice: The newest member of the ODF family
By now I’m sure you have all heard the news of the Document Foundation and LibreOffice. Personally, I’m still sorting this out. I have good friends, as well as good professional relations, on both...
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Is ODF Green?
Green IT is concerned with approaches to information technology that reduce the environmental impact from the manufacture, use and disposal of computers and peripherals. Occasionally I am asked...
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ODF Ingredients
I think you will enjoy this graphic. Click for a larger view. This is a chart of all of the standards that ODF 1.2 refers to, what we standards geeks call “normative references”. A normative...
View ArticleODF Plugfest — Brussels
A couple of weeks ago I was in Brussels to participate in the 4th ODF Plugfest. I planned on writing up a nice long post about it. But right when I started to draft this blog post, I came across an...
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Introducing: the Simple Java API for ODF
The Announcement The first public release of the new Simple Java API for ODF is now available for download. This API radically simplifies common document automation tasks, allowing you to perform tasks...
View ArticleODF TC Creates Advanced Document Collaboration Subcommittee
The OASIS ODF Technical Committee voted a couple of weeks ago to create a new subcommittee, on “Advanced Document Collaboration”. Robin LaFontaine, from DeltaXML will chair the subcommittee. Since the...
View ArticleMicrosoft Office and ODF: Best Practices
I’ve received a few questions about how to read/write ODF documents from Microsoft Office. I looked around and did not find a comprehensive Microsoft web page on this topic, so I’m putting together...
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The Versions of ODF
It has been a few months now since the OASIS ODF TC has done substantive technical work on ODF 1.2. We had a 60-day public review last summer, a 15-day public review last December and we will start...
View ArticleBest Practices for Authoring Interoperable ODF Documents
In the OASIS ODF Interoperability and Conformance TC we have recently started work on a new document, a “Committee Note” which will be called, “Best Practices for Authoring Interoperable ODF...
View ArticleOASIS ODF 1.2 Committee Specification Approved
A few quick ODF updates. We have a number of projects moving forward at multiple levels. First, just last week the OASIS ODF TC approved the ODF 1.2 Committee Specification. This is the highest level...
View ArticleTen Things You Didn’t Know About ODF 1.2
Some little known facts, all of them true, but only some of them amusing, and even then only just so, about ODF 1.2, recently approved as a Committee Specification by the OASIS ODF TC: In producing...
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Gwenell Doc: A Small and Fast ODF Text Editor
Today I look at Gwennel Doc, an ODF-based text editor for Microsoft Windows. In interesting attribute of Gwennel is its small size and fast speed. It can load and display the 792 page ODF 1.2,...
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ODF Plugfest, Berlin
Photo courtesy of Bjorn Lundell I attended the 6th ODF Plugfest took place in Berlin a few weeks ago, hosted by the German Federal Ministry of the Interior (BMI) and the Ministry of Economics and...
View ArticleAn Invitation to the Apache ODF Toolkit
Perhaps overlooked in all the excitement generated by the move of OpenOffice.org to Apache was the fact that a parallel move is occurring with the ODF Toolkit. A few weeks ago we submitted a proposal...
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ODF 1.2: Approved as an OASIS Standard
To quote the immortal words of Otis B. Driftwood, “Let joy be unconfined. Let there be dancing in the streets, drinking in the saloons, and necking in the parlor”. The day has finally arrived. Open...
View ArticleFirst release of the Apache ODF Toolkit
The Apache ODF Toolkit 0.5 (incubating) release is now available for download. Detailed change notes are also posted. The ODF Toolkit is a Java library for reading, writing and creating ODF...
View ArticleODF 1.2 Submitted to ISO
Last Wednesday, March 26th, on Document Freedom Day, OASIS submitted Open Document Format 1.2 standard to the ISO/IEC JTC1 Secretariat for transposition to an International Standard under the Publicly...
View ArticleDocument as Activity versus Document as Record
I’ve been thinking some more on the past, present and future of documents. I don’t know exactly where this post will end up, but I think this will help me clarify some of my own thoughts. First, I...
View ArticleISO/IEC JTC1 Approves ODF 1.2 PAS Ballot
OASIS ODF 1.2, the current version of the Open Document Format standard, was approved by ISO/IEC JTC1 National Bodies after a 3-month Publicly Available Specification (PAS) ballot. The final vote for...
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