[LINK] PDF standard and ODF support

[Kim Holburn]

On 2010/Jun/11, at 9:13 AM, David Lochrin wrote:

> Many Linkers may be aware of it already, but I was recently  
> surprised to find that the PDF format is now an ISO/IEC standard -  
> ISO 32000-1:2008.  See http://www.iso.org/iso/catalogue_detail.htm?csnumber=51502
>
> I understand also that Microsoft Office-2007 SP2 supports ODF (ISO/ 
> IEC 26300:2006 Open Document Format for Office Applications  
> (OpenDocument) v1.0).

Except that OpenDocument format is at v1.2 .   v1.0 doesn't work very  
well for spreadsheets, which is well known to Microsoft.

Here is an article on interoperability of ODF spreadsheets:

http://www.robweir.com/blog/2009/05/update-on-odf-spreadsheet-interoperability.html

It's not good news so far.

> Does any Linker have experience with exchanging word-processed  
> documents or spreadsheets between Office-2007 and OpenOffice?
>
> David
>
> P.S.  Having recently tangled with Windows-7 I had to find a PDF  
> reader, and there's a nice little open-source package known as  
> "Evince" which runs on Windows - see http://live.gnome.org/Evince   
> However the version I downloaded doesn't yet seem to support the  
> "hand" for grabbing and moving a document on the screen, which is a  
> pity IMO.
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