[odf-discuss] Sun's OpenDocument filter for MS office released

[Mirko Nasato]

Daniel Carrera wrote:
>
> Excellent... and very interesting. You mean that *two-way*
> communication is better using the Sun plugin + ODF files:
>
> MS Office <-> Sun plugin <-> ODF <-> OOo
>
> Than using MS formats?:
>
> MS Office <-> .doc/.ppt/.xls <-> OOo
>
> That is great news, but it's also surprising. If the plugin is based
> on OOo I would expect the quality to be the same. Do you know anything
> that might explain this difference?
>
As you said if it's based on the same code the quality must the same. I
think Peter just meant that .odt to .doc gives better results than .doc
to .odt?

That's not surprising either: since .doc is proprietary (and different
from one Word version to another) it's difficult to reverse engineer the
complete format so some features may be missing when importing from
.doc; however when creating a .doc you use only a reliable subset of
features so the results are better.

Kind regards

Mirko