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Is there still Gold in Montana?
I just discovered Tomahawk Gold from Native Winds of Montana. It looks like an attractive software package to print booklets from a variety of formats such as ODF, OOXML, txt, RTF, and XML.
This application does include its own editor to correct potential import glitches and reformatted files ready for printing in various formats, such as 1up, 2up (booklet) and 4up so proof your layout while saving paper. It allows you as well to produce PDF files directly for electronic distribution and printing by the end-user. The product sells for $36, download only.
The same company also produces a document converter from MS-OOXML or ODF to RTF. This is a freeware program, just to download from their website. Freeware Genius thinks the Converter is worth its money
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Save the forrest(s)
Yoon Kit blogs over at Open Malaysia about the physical size of the Microsoft OOXML spec presented to the International and national standardization boards.
You got to see the pictures of the 6039 pages in context. They are really eye popping.
Yoon also argues that this is probably by far the largest spec reviews in such short time. He puts his weight behind the request of various national organization bodies at the International Standardization Organization (ISO) to not fast track this mammoth of a standard specification. But these requests were ignored. This post is a must read!
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MSOOXML rejected for ISO Standard
Yesterday, the International Standard Organization rejected the wholesale acceptance of MS OOXML also known as ECMA-376 as a new ISO standard.
The relevant comittee did not reach the 2/3 approval rate nor did it stay below the 25% objection threshold. This is not a final decision but a request to study the matter in more detail. The 26% “No” votes of participating committee members have mandatory comments attached and these will be discussed at an assembly February 2008. Presumably then remedies will be worked out and the standard draft will be improved and voted on again.
Approving MS OOXML as a second ISO standard for Office documents, after ODF (ISO 26300) has increased interest in such matters dramatically. Many countries did upgrade their membership in the relevant comittee from observes to participants in oder to have an actual vote. Many obeservers of the process allege that Microsoft is lobbying with such countries as Cote d’Ivoire, Cyprus, Ecuador, Jamaica, Lebanon, Malta, Pakistan, Trinidad and Tobago, Turkey, Uruguay and Venezuela to become participating and voting members. Interestingly, all new participating members did vote in Microsoft’s favor for fast tracking the approval.
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What is the Role of Corruption in MSOOXML ISO Vote?
I blogged yesterday that ISO rejected the MS OOXML application for fast tracking this proprietarily developed format as an ISO standard. The Electronic Frontier Finnland has an interesting article on their website, stating a strong correlation between the ‘YES’ vote for MS-OOXML approval and the Corruption Perception Index (CPI).
While not all correlation can be interpreted as a causal relationship, all causal relationships should show near perfect correlation.
Interesting in this context is also recent research into why “myth” are hard to defeat. It states that ignoring the myth gives it a stamp of approval, because nobody does claim its falsehood. However, correcting a myth does often reinforce the false statement in the human mind instead of reversing it.
I leave it to the reader to draw their own conclusions.
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No OOXML as ISO standard
The campaign for MS-OOXML as ISO standard has been pushed forward by Microsoft for a while. Now the opposition does collect signatures to say No to MS-OOXML’s adoption as an ISO standard.
The critics do not want two standards and they do not want standards that have no reference implementation, do not make use of other ISO standards or do not fully describe what actually is the standard. The later point preventing anybody from complying
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Do you know any “alternative” MS-OOXML implementrations?
I’m curious if anybody of my readers can point me to non Microsoft OO-XML implementations?
I stumbled today over Linspire’s press release with this rather controversial paragraph.
The Open XML format is an open standard file format for office applications that can be freely implemented by multiple applications on multiple platforms. The Open XML format was standardized by Ecma International on December 7, 2006 and is also being implemented by multiple applications on multiple platforms. It is now under consideration for ratification by ISO/IEC JTC1. Open XML is the default format for the recently released Microsoft Office 2007. The Open XML format is also available through free updates to past Microsoft Office versions.
It claims that OOXML is open and can be implemented by anybody. However there is a raging discussion in the ISO standardization community and the open source community at large, that MS-OOXML is neither open nor worthy a standard, due to various contradictions and secretive parts.
I wonder if I’m just misinformed, or if there are more than some beta attempts from Novel, that so far are limited and buggy.
User:conficio: Software documentation one screencast at a time
Do you know any “alternative” MS-OOXML implementrations?
I’m curious if anybody of my readers can point me to non Microsoft OO-XML implementations?
I stumbled today over Linspire’s press release with this rather controversial paragraph.
The Open XML format is an open standard file format for office applications that can be freely implemented by multiple applications on multiple platforms. The Open XML format was standardized by Ecma International on December 7, 2006 and is also being implemented by multiple applications on multiple platforms. It is now under consideration for ratification by ISO/IEC JTC1. Open XML is the default format for the recently released Microsoft Office 2007. The Open XML format is also available through free updates to past Microsoft Office versions.
It claims that OOXML is open and can be implemented by anybody. However there is a raging discussion in the ISO standardization community and the open source community at large, that MS-OOXML is neither open nor worthy a standard, due to various contradictions and secretive parts.
I wonder if I’m just misinformed, or if there are more than some beta attempts from Novel, that so far are limited and buggy.
User:conficio: Software documentation one screencast at a time
No OOXML as ISO standard
The campaign for MS-OOXML as ISO standard has been pushed forward by Microsoft for a while. Now the opposition does collect signatures to say No to MS-OOXML’s adoption as an ISO standard.
The critics do not want two standards and they do not want standards that have no reference implementation, do not make use of other ISO standards or do not fully describe what actually is the standard. The later point preventing anybody from complying
User:conficio: Software documentation one screencast at a time
Save the forrest(s)
Yoon Kit blogs over at Open Malaysia about the physical size of the Microsoft OOXML spec presented to the International and national standardization boards.
You got to see the pictures of the 6039 pages in context. They are really eye popping.
Yoon also argues that this is probably by far the largest spec reviews in such short time. He puts his weight behind the request of various national organization bodies at the International Standardization Organization (ISO) to not fast track this mammoth of a standard specification. But these requests were ignored. This post is a must read!
User:conficio: Software documentation one screencast at a time
ODF vs OOXML comparison white paper
Free Software Magazine publishes a white paper comparing ODF and OOXML the two XML office document formats that compete to become the standards of choice. The author, Edward Macnaghten has produced the white paper on request from the UK Action Group of the Open Document Format Alliance. So don’t expect a totally unbiased work, but the white paper lists a lot of comparison facts and could be useful for any project making a decision for the future office document format.
The original paper, has fewer formatting constraints imposed by the magazines format.
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