[odf-discuss] Should we mention "Microsoft Office + Sun plug-in" as an "ODF supporting" application ?

[marbux]

On 9/12/07, Peter Vandenabeele <peter at vandenabeele.com> wrote:
>
> Actually by now, I consider the combination of Office 2003 and the
> Sun plug-in to offer quite good (90% would be my number) support
> of ODF in Microsoft Office 2003.


You're a bit high on the fidelity. The Sun plug-in uses portions of the
StarOffice/OOo code base to pre- and post-process conversions extrnally
rather using Microsoft's internal native file format conversion routines as
the Foundation's plug-in does, so the fidelity is no better than the
conversions done by OOo itself. That gives about 80 per cent fidelity. I'd
guess that you're placing it higher because your office doesn't regularly
exercise the full Microsoft feature set.

Sun didn't go much further in its reverse engineering of the Word native
file format support API than what was published by Microsoft several years
ago. That was enough to get ODF to show on the file open and save dialogs in
Word, but not enough to achieve the high fidelity required for
Microsoft-bound busines processes, at least those where data loss is
unacceptable.

Best regards,


BUCK "MARBUX" MARTIN
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  OpenDocument Foundation
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