[LINK] Open Document Formats Mandated by UK Government

[Tom Worthington]

The UK Government has mandated the use of Open document formats by all 
government bodies. The selected standards are PDF/A and HTML for viewing 
government documents and Open Document Format (ODF) for sharing 
documents: 
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/open-standards-for-government

ODF is the native format used by the free open source 
LibreOffice/OpenOffice software package. The Office Open XML format, as 
used by Microsoft Office, is not one of the formats chosen for use by 
the UK Government. The Australian Government is unclear as to its 
preferred files formats: 
http://www.finance.gov.au/blog/2012/02/17/reviewing-coe-policy-office-productivity-suite-file-format-discussion/


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