[odf-discuss] Google indexes ODF

[Peter Vandenabeele]

On 3/15/07, Mirko Nasato <mirko at artofsolving.com> wrote:
> And not just .odt apparently. Try searching e.g. "test filetype:odt",
> "test filetype:ods", "test filetype:odp".

But also this combination of Google servers and Firefox 2.0.0.2 does
not seem to lay-out certain .odt documents with correct formatting.

Try watching

  http://hu.openoffice.org/files/documents/176/2938/ooo2prodflyera3hu.odt

with FireFox 2.0.0.2 and then compare with the (correct I assume) lay-out
when viewed with OpenOffice.org 2.1 (only tested on Windows).

Of all trials I have executed, only OpenOffice.org 2.1 does lay-out
this document
correctly. Examples that render it incorrectly are:

* OO.o 2.0.4 on Debian GNU/Linux (the version today in "Debian sid")
* Koffice 1.6.1 on Debian GNU/Linux (the version today in "Debian sid")
* Abiword 2.4.6 on Windows XP does not seem to have .odt import yet
  (the version of Abiword in "Debian sid" crashes on me, just after having
   shown the splash screen")
* MS Office 2003 with odt-converter 1.0
* MS Office 2003 with the current Sun plug-in Beta
* and using OO.o 2.1 to read the document (correctly) and export it to
  .doc and read that back with MS Office 2003 yields incorrect results
  (I assume this last test functions as a mock-up of how good a technology
   of e.g. JODconverter could handle such a document for interop between
   MS Office  and .odt documents).

and now Google + Firefox adds to the list of applications that fail to
lay-out this document accurately ...

Or are my expectations over reproducible lay-out of an .odt document incorrect ?
Or is there another problem that I don't understand ? I'll listen to any hints.

Peter