commgre.blogg.se - Libreoffice for mac review

No doubt the many improvements the LibreOffice team has made will make compatibility better and many documents will interoperate smoothly, but our brief experiment shows that sticking to one format and Office suite does still reduce friction in some cases. odt version to Word made the diagrams disappear completely. Incidentally, this test also showed that using Microsoft Office support for Open Document formats is challenging: in our test, importing the. Similarly, SoftMaker Office said that it "uses the Microsoft Office formats DOCX, XLSX and PPTX natively, obviating the need to convert documents for colleagues or business partners."Ī further experiment established that even without the intermediate step, just changing one character and saving the document corrupted it when opened in Word. So, if you look at a doc as a set of objects, OnlyOffice's object models corresponds to OOXML specifications, while Libre's object model corresponds to ODF's ones." The makers of OnlyOffice claimed that "all the objects present in OnlyOffice are created strictly according to MS Office format specs. Some Microsoft Office rivals made the decision to use Microsoft's formats as their own native formats.

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The library also notes the interest in converting documents from OOXML to ODF and said: "Although simple documents can be effectively converted, a round-trip to an identical document should never be expected." docx, which it considers an "acceptable format for textual works," unlike the older binary Microsoft Office formats. Regarding ODF, it said: "Despite official mandates and recommendations, adoption of ODF formats has been slow, particularly in the US," and reveals that the library has "around 52,000 files" with formats in the ODF family.Īs for OOXML, the library said that it has nearly 800,000 files in. The US Library of Congress has some pragmatic notes on these formats. In practice, therefore, the Strict format is less well supported than Transitional – even though Microsoft has offered Strict as an option since 2012.

This is the issue referenced by The Document Foundation above yet LibreOffice itself saves in the Transitional format, and an open issue to support Strict gets little attention. A further complication is that in theory a variety of OOXML called Strict is the preferred standard, but in practice everyone (including Microsoft) uses OOXML Transitional, and realistically it seems that the period of transition may never end.