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Understanding ODF compliance and interoperability

The Open Document Format (ODF) is an open standard format for office documents, which offers a vendor-independent, royalty-free way to encode text documents, spreadsheets, presentations, and more. However, to realise its potential, it is necessary to understand the concepts of compliance – the degree to which an implementation adheres to ODF specifications – and interoperability […]

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Before LibreOffice there was OpenOffice, and before OpenOffice there was StarOffice…

LibreOffice is the successor project to OpenOffice(.org), which in turn was based on StarOffice, a proprietary office suite developed in the 1990s. Learn more about the history here! And let’s hear from Stefan Soyka, who worked on StarOffice from 1990 – 1992… When did you join Star Division, and what did you work on? I […]

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2025-06-20 Friday

Up early; sync with Dave & Asja. Admin, caught part of an interesting WASM Tea Time Training. Sync with Thorsten, merger status round. Late lunch; customer/partner call, code-read an issue with Pranam: finally some code! Out for a walk with J. in the evening, relaxed on the heath and watched the sky together, pub in Moulton, home, bed.

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Understanding ODF compliance and interoperability

The Open Document Format (ODF) is an open standard format for office documents, which offers a vendor-independent, royalty-free way to encode text documents, spreadsheets, presentations, and more. However, to realise its potential, it is necessary to understand the concepts of compliance – the degree to which an implementation adheres to ODF specifications – and interoperability […]

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