Novell ODF Translator and MS Office ODF plugin reviewed
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The translation between ODF and OOXML is an important issue. A presentation of Werner Langer from the German Foreign Office reveals that the Novell translator and the MS Office add-in are of inferiour quality
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arebentiarebenti 1205613343|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

Which translators take more time and produce less good results when converting between OOXML and ODF? Werner Langer, MFA spoke in the Netherlands about "Experiences in Format Conversion" in the German foreign office. The IT strategist tested several solutions available on the market. While no solution seems to be satisfactory only the SUN products offer the users a better quality and they are much faster in the conversion.

His results reveal that conversion needs more attention from developers, esp. now that The Netherlands standardize on ODF - with more public agencies to come. The German Foreign Office migrated to Linux and Open Source solutions. The test results demonstrate that PR stunts won't convince customers that compare the solutions available. The results also indicate that the OOXML conversion will be a non-trivial exercise for competitors. A single international standard could help to reduce the pain.

http://www.odfworkshop.nl/files/20080228-ODFworkshop-WernerLanger.pdf

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xformsxforms 1205772534|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

what about converting MathML into MS Office internal format and back? still zero progress?

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