OpenDocument Format

"This project builds a converter that allows conversion from the Open Document Format (ODF) to translation files (PO and XLIFF)."

"jOpenDocument is a free library for developers looking to use Open Document files without OpenOffice.org. jOpenDocument is Open Source (under GPL or commercial license)."

"[W]e should all be pushing and saving documents as much as possible in the ODF file format. When you send a file out, you could send it in ODF, if the other person doesn't have it yet, then write yours in ODF, and then save later to another format, but send both pushing that person to ODF also (viral acceptance). Make ODF the default. Always import and work again in ODF."

Version 0.9 of this ODF Python library has been released * Updated to ODF 1.1. * A csv2ods program * The ability to load ODF 1.2 files * Online manual (though not complete)

'Cenatic, Spain's national resource centre on open source, next week is offering a two courses for software developers interested in the ODF-viewer for mobile phones that the centre has had developed last year."

"While you can create and save documents in the OpenDocument format using OpenOffice.org, KWord, or AbiWord, there are other ways to generate ODF files. odtwriter, for example, can help you to quickly convert plain text files formatted using reStructured Text markup into odt (OpenOffice.org Writer-compatible ODF) documents."

Linus on standards

"Doug Mahugh of Microsoft is pushing inside the ODF Technical Committee for proprietary extensions, by which the monopolist vendor could embrace and extend the format to "innovate". "

"So why are open document formats important? What happens when someone sends you a document created with Microsoft Word 2007, and saved with the default file format? You get a file with a .docx extension, and you have to find some way to convert it or obtain it in another format."

"I think ODF is a very complex issue and maybe thats the reason why I did not find one movie that was getting the topic accross in a nice way. Most talks about ODF are highly technical or theoretically. I wish we would have something like some short 2-3 minute scenes where it is shown why MS Office is bad and OO.org and ODF is good."

"The ODF Internationalization Test Suite includes more than 200 tests illustrating how to convert an ODF document to a translation file (like PO or XLIFF)."

"Adding FastReport .Net to your application is a breeze. You need to put several necessary components on the visual form, then connect to needed data sources and make a report form. The end user who get FastReport .Net in an application can edit templates and available reports, print or convert reports to about 15 formats (such as PDF, XLS, RTF, and ODF), and send reports by email directly from the application or receive by the web."

"2. OpenDocument Format (ODF) support in iWorks"