#document-formats — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #document-formats, aggregated by home.social.
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ICYMI: Gemini can now export files directly - what formats are supported: Gemini now exports files in 11 formats - PDF, Word, Excel, Google Docs and more - available globally to all users from April 29, 2026, without leaving the chat. https://ppc.land/gemini-can-now-export-files-directly-what-formats-are-supported/ #Gemini #FileExport #DocumentFormats #PDF #Word
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An article about how "immortal" MS Word is and other MSFT praise turned up in my feed, so I found the need to reprise (and liberate) my 2013 rant "Compatibility Is Hard: CHARTEST.DOC Is From 1989, Was Not Readable By 2003" https://nxdomain.no/~peter/compatibility_is_hard.html #msword #winword #compatibility #documentformats #informationprotection which links to other (probably better) pieces by myself and @cstross
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An article about how "immortal" MS Word is and other MSFT praise turned up in my feed, so I found the need to reprise (and liberate) my 2013 rant "Compatibility Is Hard: CHARTEST.DOC Is From 1989, Was Not Readable By 2003" https://nxdomain.no/~peter/compatibility_is_hard.html #msword #winword #compatibility #documentformats #informationprotection which links to other (probably better) pieces by myself and @cstross
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https://social.emucafe.org/naferrell/pages-does-not-open-odt-files-10-13-25/
I am collaborating with my friend Victor V. Gurbo (NLJ profile, official website) on a New Leaf Journal article which will go live tomorrow (October 14, 2025, if you are reading this after). I converted my markdown draft to LibreOffice for my final edits. I then sent the draft to Victor for him to review and ensure that all of the information is accurate. I sent it as an .odt file. Victor (unfortunately) uses a Mac. He tried to open it Pages. It didn’t open. Today I learned that Pages cannot open .odt files. I used LibreOffice to re-save it as .docx and he could open that. I am glad Apple is out there giving us more proprietary rich text processors with weird formats and restrictions. Thank you.
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https://social.emucafe.org/naferrell/pages-does-not-open-odt-files-10-13-25/
I am collaborating with my friend Victor V. Gurbo (NLJ profile, official website) on a New Leaf Journal article which will go live tomorrow (October 14, 2025, if you are reading this after). I converted my markdown draft to LibreOffice for my final edits. I then sent the draft to Victor for him to review and ensure that all of the information is accurate. I sent it as an .odt file. Victor (unfortunately) uses a Mac. He tried to open it Pages. It didn’t open. Today I learned that Pages cannot open .odt files. I used LibreOffice to re-save it as .docx and he could open that. I am glad Apple is out there giving us more proprietary rich text processors with weird formats and restrictions. Thank you.
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History seems to (almost) repeat itself, so reprising my *2008* piece "Does anybody here remember Artie Eff?" https://nxdomain.no/~peter/does_anybody_here_remember_artie_eff_2008.html #ooxml #xml #documentfoundation #documentformats #libreoffice #opensource #libresoftware #freesoftware #microsoft #office @tdforg
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History seems to (almost) repeat itself, so reprising my *2008* piece "Does anybody here remember Artie Eff?" https://nxdomain.no/~peter/does_anybody_here_remember_artie_eff_2008.html #ooxml #xml #documentfoundation #documentformats #libreoffice #opensource #libresoftware #freesoftware #microsoft #office @tdforg