Gmail - [office] Clarification for frame formatting property style:flow-with-text - Flock - 0 views
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Some notes on the history of this feature in OpenOffice.org Writer:Prior to OpenOffice.org 2.0, text frames, embedded object and graphicsare clipped/captured inside its layout environment and flow with thetext flow, if possible. The reason for this was, that the contentstructure also determines the layout structure - e.g. a paragraph insidea page header have to stay inside the page header.Shapes (drawing objects in OpenOffice.org) unfortunately doesn't followthis rule.For OpenOffice.org 2.0, we needed to unify text frames, embeddedobjects, graphics and shapes. Thus, this frame formatting property hasbeen proposed. This need was also influenced by interoperabilityrequests for the binary Microsoft Word file format and the MicrosoftWord layout.
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Aha! I mentioned in an earlier bookmark that Sun was involved in the Belgium ODF - OOXML Pilot Study. It was disclosed by Peter V. (Belgium Consultant to Peter Strick's group) that Sun was proposing changes to the ODF 1.2 specification, after the close date, to improve the conversion fidelity problem their plug-in is having in the trials. We tried to do the same thing to save ODF in Massachusetts. Sun didn't have a plug-in for the Massachusetts trials, and opposed our iX interop enhancements and extensions. I guess they are beginning to understand why the iX proposals are so important?
If you can't convert MS binaries and xml to ODF, then there is no use in the real world for ODF. It's that simple. In California, the CIO's routinely refer to this problem as, "ODF is impossible to implement".
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Summary of First ODF Summit held in Armonk, organized by IBM and Sun. List of names for all attendees
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Summary of First ODF Summit held in Armonk, organized by IBM and Sun. List of names for all attendees