The OpenOffice.org ODF Toolkit Project
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| The scope of the ODF Toolkit project is:
|
| 1. To improve the ability to use OpenOffice.org as a programming
| framework for creating and processing OpenDocument (ODF) documents
| rather than to use it as a desktop application. This will be
| achieved by transforming an appropriate subset from the OpenOffice.org
| source code basis, and by adapting it to the new purpose.
|
| 2. To provide a home for components that can be used for processing
| ODF documents and that are either based on the new ODF Toolkit, or
| complement it.
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http://odftoolkit.openoffice.org/
Related:
KOffice 1.6.1 Release Announcement
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| KOffice is an integrated office suite, today mostly for KDE, which
| utilizes free and open standards like OpenDocument for its document
| formats, component communication and component embedding.
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http://www.koffice.org/announcements/announce-1.6.1.php
Converter Enables Conversion Between ODF & Chinese Document Format (UOF)
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| Peking University recently released a program to convert office
| documents between OpenDocument Format and the Specification for
| the Chinese office file format based on XML (UOF for short).
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http://lxer.com/module/newswire/view/77350/index.html
China aims to set a new office doc standard
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| In most of the world, Microsoft dominates the market for office
| productivity applications. In China, however, there are at least
| four other domestically developed office suites to choose from.
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http://www.infoworld.com/article/06/12/04/49OPopenent_1.html
IBM project aims to help blind use ODF applications
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| APIs will faciliate visuals to be interpreted by screen readers
| that reproduce information verbally
|
| [...]
|
| The technology is based on interfaces IBM originally developed with
| Sun Microsystems Inc. to make programs on Java and Linux platforms
| accessible to the blind.
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http://www.infoworld.com/article/06/12/13/HNibmblindodf_1.html
Bob Sutor of IBM: I'm a document guy
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| Documents represent the basis for how we store the information that
| will become our history. Software applications and companies will
| come and go, market leaders will change, and certainly all of us
| will be replaced by a new and younger generation of people who think
| about information in very different ways. The choices we make today
| are important and will have implications that will play out over a
| much longer time than the history of word processing and office
| suites to date.
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http://www.sutor.com/newsite/blog-open/?p=1291
MSXML Is Not an Open Standard (ODF Alliance statement)
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| On December 7, 2006, Ecma approved Office Open XML (OOXML) and plans to
| submit it to the Joint Technical Committee 1 of the International
| Organization for Standardization and International Electrotechnical
| Commission (ISO/IEC JTC1), triggering a 9-12 month process during which
| OOXML will be considered for adoption as an international standard. Several
| critical questions regarding the Ecma process itself and OOXML need to
| be carefully considered, given the long-standing policies of ISO and
| IEC regarding openness and transparency of the standards-development
| process, the technical quality of the standard, and the avoidance of
| "contradictory" standards.
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http://www.libervis.com/msxml_is_not_an_open_standard
The Road to KDE 4: New KOffice Technologies
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| In this week's edition of the Road to KDE 4, we'll take a look at the up
| and coming KWord 2.0 as part of the KOffice project. KWord 1.6.1 is already
| a powerful KDE-integrated word processor, but with KDE 4 technologies,
| KWord 2.0 promises to be among the most powerful free word processors
| available.
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http://dot.kde.org/1168284615/
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