From koffice-devel  Thu Jun 27 11:26:15 2002
From: Martin Konold <martin.konold () erfrakon ! de>
Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2002 11:26:15 +0000
To: koffice-devel
Subject: Announcement: Availability of preliminary Study about document format
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Hi,

as previously discussed the Linux Information Systems AG is doing a study on
office document formats.

The currenty (work in progress) version of the paper is available from

http://www.buug.de/bsi-studie/

Please use the following credentials:
        Username: Reader
        Password: m42tSO+mb

This text is currently in German and we do unfortunately lack the ressources
to translate everything into English.
Maybe this effort can be done after the study is finished.
I am willing to help with translating parts of the documents if strong dema=
nds=20
arrives or if some little help is required with some paragraph.

A bzip2 version of the pdf document will be available soon.

The importance of the study lies partially in the fact that the study is do=
ne
for the German government and might have an impact in the European Union in
the near future.

A lot of the discussion about existing and maybe a future common office fil=
e=20
format is currently going on at office_standards@openoffice.org.

Anyone having problems to subscribe to this ml may contact me for help.

=2D - In the preliminary paper there is an extensive study on the existing
document formats in chapter two.

=2D - I got the impression that "Save as Web Page.." gives a fairly readable
and nearly perfect rich export of a MS Word document (Some things are lacki=
ng
compared to RTF though). What do you think about concentrating on this form=
at
as an exchange format instead of the effort to support the 32bit little
endian doc format?

=2D - Does anyone have a clue what MS intends to do in the post 32bit futur=
e?

=2D - Is the description of the KOffice XML format correct? Are there any=20
important things missing?


Yours,
=2D --martin
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Dipl.-Phys. Martin Konold
e r f r a k o n
Erlewein, Frank, Konold & Partner - Beratende Ingenieure und Physiker
Germanenstrasse 15, 70563 Stuttgart, Germany
email: martin.konold@erfrakon.de
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