Mark Kent wrote:
High Plains Thumper espoused:
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/
12572/OpenDocument-v1.0-os.pdf
or http://tinyurl.com/dkjop
ODF is 706 pages total.
http://www.ecma-international.org/news/TC45_current_work/
TC45_available_docs.htm
or http://tinyurl.com/35kqe2
OOXML Part 1 - Fundamentals, Page 2 (PDF page 9), Section 2,
Conformance versus ODF, Part 1 - Introduction, Page 35 (PDF
page 35), Section 1.5 Document Processing and Conformance.
Statistics are from gedit 2.18.1, direct copy and paste of
page contents:
ODF OOXML
58 69 Lines
427 416 Words
2883 3205 Characters (with spaces)
2156 2305 Characters (no spaces)
2898 3225 Bytes
427 : 416 = 102.6% expansion.
706 x 102.6% = 725 pages.
6000 - 725 = 5275 pages too many.
Mark, you were off by 625 pages. :-)
hehe, fair enough. There is a more fundamental difference,
though, in that ODF Is a real standard, whereas the OOXML
which our paid Microsoft people like to push is a proprietary
set of formats which even Microsoft have trouble dealing with,
let alone anyone else.
Has anyone seen how /long/ it takes Microsoft Word to convert
between formats? I recall it taking ages, so clearly the
standard is not well understood.
That I have not tried yet with MS Word 2003, although testing the
free download from sourceforge might be worth it. Oops! I
forgot, I'd violate the EULA for benchmarking the software!
Heavens forbid that I do that!
This comment regarding OOXML gives a solid argument for ODF:
http://www.sutor.com/newsite/blog-open/?p=84
[quote]
Because open standards are by definition controlled by no single
party, they facilitate interoperation among suppliers, partners,
peers, and customers. Standards such as HTML, XML and TCP/IP
maximize choice, minimize production costs and make competition
work for customers of all kinds. In the long run, market forces
work better, and vital records can be preserved forever — not
just for two or three product cycles. This proposed standard
assures none of these things.
[/quote]
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HPT
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