#opendocumentformat — Public Fediverse posts

Why OOXML-Based Suites Handle ODF Badly
The question arises naturally for anyone who chooses the standard format over the proprietary one: why do office suites that use OOXML as their native format handle ODF in ways that range from poor to appalling?

The two most obvious answers are these: vendors have neglected the format, treating it
https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/07/31/why-ooxml-based-suites-handle-odf-badly/
#LibreOffice #OpenDocumentFormat #Standards #Technology

Why OOXML-Based Suites Handle ODF Badly
The question arises naturally for anyone who chooses the standard format over the proprietary one: why do office suites that use OOXML as their native format handle ODF in ways that range from poor to appalling?

The two most obvious answers are these: vendors have neglected the format, treating it
https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/07/31/why-ooxml-based-suites-handle-odf-badly/
#LibreOffice #OpenDocumentFormat #Standards #Technology

What is Digital Sovereignty

Digital sovereignty is not about owning everything, it is about ensuring that nothing essential can be taken away.

That single line settles more arguments than it first appears to, because it disqualifies the two positions that dominate the debate. One side imagines sovereignty as control. The other imagines it as choice.

https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/07/28/what-is-digital-sovereignty/

#Community #OpenDocumentFormat #Standards

What is Digital Sovereignty

Digital sovereignty is not about owning everything, it is about ensuring that nothing essential can be taken away.

That single line settles more arguments than it first appears to, because it disqualifies the two positions that dominate the debate. One side imagines sovereignty as control. The other imagines it as choice.

https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/07/28/what-is-digital-sovereignty/

#Community #OpenDocumentFormat #Standards

What is Digital Sovereignty
Digital sovereignty is not about owning everything, it is about ensuring that nothing essential can be taken away.

That single line settles more arguments than it first appears to, because it disqualifies the two positions that dominate the debate. One side imagines sovereignty as control. The other imagines it as choice. Both are talk
https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/07/28/what-is-digital-sovereignty/
#Community #OpenDocumentFormat #Standards

What is Digital Sovereignty
Digital sovereignty is not about owning everything, it is about ensuring that nothing essential can be taken away.

That single line settles more arguments than it first appears to, because it disqualifies the two positions that dominate the debate. One side imagines sovereignty as control. The other imagines it as choice. Both are talk
https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/07/28/what-is-digital-sovereignty/
#Community #OpenDocumentFormat #Standards

#QuitGoogle #QuitGoogleDocs

Anyone out there trying to Quit the Google Ecosystem and have experience migrating away from Google Docs?

This article seems to show it’s not as hard to get the docs out as we’d first imagined:

https://www.clrn.org/how-to-remove-google-docs/

Interested in experienced especially around challenges / leanings from doing the migration and choice of formats and also around ways to keep comments in docs or not.

#Google #BigTech #QuitGoogle #GoogleDocs #Nextcloud #LibreOffice #Docx #opendocumentformat

#ODF versus #OOXML

Beim #OpenDocumentFormat handelt es sich um einen Standard für Office-Dokumente. Dem gegenüber steht das Microsoft-Format OOXML. Dieser Artikel klärt über die Hintergründe auf.

Die #Interoperabilität von #Dokumenten ist nach wie vor ein umkämpftes Feld, auf dem #Open_Source- und alternative #Office_Suiten immer wieder Hindernisse in den Weg gelegt werden.

https://gnulinux.ch/odf-versus-ooxml

#ODF versus #OOXML

Beim #OpenDocumentFormat handelt es sich um einen Standard für Office-Dokumente. Dem gegenüber steht das Microsoft-Format OOXML. Dieser Artikel klärt über die Hintergründe auf.

Die #Interoperabilität von #Dokumenten ist nach wie vor ein umkämpftes Feld, auf dem #Open_Source- und alternative #Office_Suiten immer wieder Hindernisse in den Weg gelegt werden.

https://gnulinux.ch/odf-versus-ooxml

Although I must say I agree that #ODF ( #OpenDocumentFormat ) , defender by #LibreOffice should be the #DEFAULT #OPÉN #DOCUMENT #FORMAT... , AND #NOT #OOXML which is the closed and #proprietary format by #Microsoft

But hey, this is just a question of time , I presume.. and hope

Although I must say I agree that #ODF ( #OpenDocumentFormat ) , defender by #LibreOffice should be the #DEFAULT #OPÉN #DOCUMENT #FORMAT... , AND #NOT #OOXML which is the closed and #proprietary format by #Microsoft

But hey, this is just a question of time , I presume.. and hope

Good news on the first release of Euro-Office.

I'm especially keen on this bit of text in the piece:

> Full support for open standards like ODF is also a priority. "This will be at the very top of the agenda for the next version," says Karlitschek.

Euro-Office: First version of the open-source web office is here | heise online

https://www.heise.de/en/news/Euro-Office-First-version-of-the-open-source-web-office-is-here-11322160.html?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastodon.mastodon.md_beitraege.md_beitraege

> The web office suite Euro-Office, driven by Nextcloud and Ionos, has released its first version.

#EuroOffice #NextCloud #OpenDocumentFormat

Good news on the first release of Euro-Office.

I'm especially keen on this bit of text in the piece:

> Full support for open standards like ODF is also a priority. "This will be at the very top of the agenda for the next version," says Karlitschek.

Euro-Office: First version of the open-source web office is here | heise online

https://www.heise.de/en/news/Euro-Office-First-version-of-the-open-source-web-office-is-here-11322160.html?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastodon.mastodon.md_beitraege.md_beitraege

> The web office suite Euro-Office, driven by Nextcloud and Ionos, has released its first version.

#EuroOffice #NextCloud #OpenDocumentFormat

Když ani „evropský Office“ není jednoduchý příběh: co se děje kolem Euro-Office

https://pepikhipik.com/2026/06/09/kdyz-ani-evropsky-office-neni-jednoduchy-pribeh-co-se-deje-kolem-euro-office/

RE: https://swiss.social/@j_honegger/116714668324369872

Interesting and good to know.

#OpenDocumentFormat #ODF #EuroOffice

RE: https://swiss.social/@j_honegger/116714668324369872

Interesting and good to know.

#OpenDocumentFormat #ODF #EuroOffice

@ErikJonker @ton

However, it seems that Euro-Office does not currently support ODF fully.

From https://nextcloud.com/blog/euro-office-building-momentum

"Euro-Office roadmap: Security, performance, and ODF support"

"✅ Improve ODF support"

"One item we want to call out specifically: Euro-Office will work towards full ODF support. That is not only because it matters technically, but also reflects our priorities: a focus on open standards."

#EuroOffice #OpenDocumentFormat #ODF

@ErikJonker @ton

However, it seems that Euro-Office does not currently support ODF fully.

From https://nextcloud.com/blog/euro-office-building-momentum

"Euro-Office roadmap: Security, performance, and ODF support"

"✅ Improve ODF support"

"One item we want to call out specifically: Euro-Office will work towards full ODF support. That is not only because it matters technically, but also reflects our priorities: a focus on open standards."

#EuroOffice #OpenDocumentFormat #ODF

ODF vs OOXML, an issue that should never have existed

Whenever we address the contrast between ODF and OOXML, some people perceive it as a campaign against a company. It is not. We are trying to do something far more useful: to make the structural problem with the standard document format clear to those who have to live with it: public officials, educators, and above all, individual citizens.

https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/05/28/odf-vs-ooxml-an-issue-that-should-never-have-existed/

#odf #opendocumentformat

ODF vs OOXML, an issue that should never have existed

Whenever we address the contrast between ODF and OOXML, some people perceive it as a campaign against a company. It is not. We are trying to do something far more useful: to make the structural problem with the standard document format clear to those who have to live with it: public officials, educators, and above all, individual citizens.

https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/05/28/odf-vs-ooxml-an-issue-that-should-never-have-existed/

#odf #opendocumentformat

A reader objected to two words in my recent piece on documents as software (https://lnkd.in/dPBnUxZ6). Here is what the objection taught me about the structure of adversarial reading in FOSS advocacy, and why most communications professionals never learn to see it: The Disproportion Test: a Reflection on Instrumental Criticisms of Advocacy (https://lnkd.in/dzNU6WSK).

#opendocumentformat #odf #foss #advocacy

A reader objected to two words in my recent piece on documents as software (https://lnkd.in/dPBnUxZ6). Here is what the objection taught me about the structure of adversarial reading in FOSS advocacy, and why most communications professionals never learn to see it: The Disproportion Test: a Reflection on Instrumental Criticisms of Advocacy (https://lnkd.in/dzNU6WSK).

#opendocumentformat #odf #foss #advocacy

» Nicht nur Behörden, auch immer mehr Unternehmen wie BMW oder Post setzen auf die Unabhängigkeit offener Systeme.
[…]
Dieser Erfolg dient nun als Blaupause für den Bund. Der #DeutschlandStack setzt auf Interoperabilität und das #OpenDocumentFormat. Öffentliches Geld für öffentlichen Code. Verbesserungen an der Software bleiben der Gemeinschaft erhalten, statt in proprietären Ökosystemen zu verschwinden. «

#Linux #DigitaleUnabhängigkeit #UnplugTrump #UnplugBigtech

https://borncity.com/news/deutschland-setzt-auf-open-source-linux-erobert-die-verwaltung/

» Nicht nur Behörden, auch immer mehr Unternehmen wie BMW oder Post setzen auf die Unabhängigkeit offener Systeme.
[…]
Dieser Erfolg dient nun als Blaupause für den Bund. Der #DeutschlandStack setzt auf Interoperabilität und das #OpenDocumentFormat. Öffentliches Geld für öffentlichen Code. Verbesserungen an der Software bleiben der Gemeinschaft erhalten, statt in proprietären Ökosystemen zu verschwinden. «

#Linux #DigitaleUnabhängigkeit #UnplugTrump #UnplugBigtech

https://borncity.com/news/deutschland-setzt-auf-open-source-linux-erobert-die-verwaltung/

#Nextcloud promoting #OOXML as default document format and unwilling to switch back to #ODF lets proprietary software leave deeper imprint. And fits the blunder of #EuroOffice choosing #OnlyOffice instead of #CollaboraOnline. While Germany in its Deutschland-Stack demands ODF. Congratulations.

https://github.com/nextcloud/richdocuments/pull/5516

#OpenDocumentFormat

#Nextcloud promoting #OOXML as default document format and unwilling to switch back to #ODF lets proprietary software leave deeper imprint. And fits the blunder of #EuroOffice choosing #OnlyOffice instead of #CollaboraOnline. While Germany in its Deutschland-Stack demands ODF. Congratulations.

https://github.com/nextcloud/richdocuments/pull/5516

#OpenDocumentFormat

ODF est l’avenir, OOXML le passé

https://linuxfr.org/news/odf-est-l-avenir-ooxml-le-passe

#ODF #OpenDocumentFormat #LibreOffice #LogicielsLibres

ODF est l’avenir, OOXML le passé

https://linuxfr.org/news/odf-est-l-avenir-ooxml-le-passe

#ODF #OpenDocumentFormat #LibreOffice #LogicielsLibres

Der IT-Planungsrat hat zahlreiche offene Standards für die Verwaltungs-IT definiert. Dazu gehört auch das Dateiformat ODF, das übrigens auch unter der Nummer ISO/IEC 26300 genormt ist.

Die Realität sieht derzeit jedoch meist noch so aus wie dieses Meme.

https://deutschland-stack.gov.de/gesamtbild/

#DeutschlandStack #ODF #OpenDocumentFormat

Der IT-Planungsrat hat zahlreiche offene Standards für die Verwaltungs-IT definiert. Dazu gehört auch das Dateiformat ODF, das übrigens auch unter der Nummer ISO/IEC 26300 genormt ist.

Die Realität sieht derzeit jedoch meist noch so aus wie dieses Meme.

https://deutschland-stack.gov.de/gesamtbild/

#DeutschlandStack #ODF #OpenDocumentFormat

@libreoffice I spent the weekend converting my Apple Pages, Numbers, and KeyNote files to LibreOffice. Two things stood out: 1) Libre doesn’t handle KeyNote lines very well, lengths and orientations were all wrong; 2) Libre doesn’t like to bring in custom fonts during the conversion of Pages.

Both can be worked around.

Libre has come a long way since I last used it many years ago. I feel like I can use it regularly now. Great job!!!

#applepages #AppleNumbers
#applekeynote
#LibreOffice
#opendocumentformat

@libreoffice I spent the weekend converting my Apple Pages, Numbers, and KeyNote files to LibreOffice. Two things stood out: 1) Libre doesn’t handle KeyNote lines very well, lengths and orientations were all wrong; 2) Libre doesn’t like to bring in custom fonts during the conversion of Pages.

Both can be worked around.

Libre has come a long way since I last used it many years ago. I feel like I can use it regularly now. Great job!!!

#applepages #AppleNumbers
#applekeynote
#LibreOffice
#opendocumentformat

📢 L'#Allemagne 🇩🇪 vient de rendre obligatoire le format standard #OpenDocumentFormat (#ODF)
https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/03/20/big-news-germany-has-just-made-odf-mandatory/
#OpenSource #LogicielsLibres #FreeSoftware #GAFAM #Microsoft #OpenXML #OOXML #LibreOffice #CollaboraOnline #Office365 #MSOffice #MicrosoftOffice

📢 L'#Allemagne 🇩🇪 vient de rendre obligatoire le format standard #OpenDocumentFormat (#ODF)
https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/03/20/big-news-germany-has-just-made-odf-mandatory/
#OpenSource #LogicielsLibres #FreeSoftware #GAFAM #Microsoft #OpenXML #OOXML #LibreOffice #CollaboraOnline #Office365 #MSOffice #MicrosoftOffice

RE: https://mastodon.social/@nixCraft/116280404930054383

we all need a #DeutschlandStack 👏📜 #OpenDocumentFormat #ODF

Big Win for #OpenSource as Germany Backs #OpenDocumentFormat

» Germany doing this in a binding, nationwide framework is a meaningful step, and the rest of Europe would benefit if they took note of this. «

#DeutschlandStack #DigitalSovereignty

https://itsfoss.com/news/germany-digital-stack-mandate/