So for 2.4 i will commit a RTF only switch to openoffice server based export. I postpone all over decisions to 2.5 that should have a whole new office export which would make most of them a lot simplier (no need to decide which format to export, etc.). On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 21:44, Thomas Mortagne <[email protected]> wrote:
On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 19:03, Florin Ciubotaru <[email protected]> wrote:
Hi,
Why not use the opportunity to export to DOC instead/in addition of RTF. It would be only support the DOC export param and add/replace one menu to show DOC.
We used RTF only because FOP only did RTF while what we really want is
DOC
Ludovic
Supporting .doc is a bit, well, late. I'm saying this because .docx should be the new and improved version, so a more relevant format would be .docx (Office Open XML). However, even Microsoft recognized that OOXML lost the battle with ODF, and the future format which will be supported by most tools seems to be ODF.
We don't have to choose one. If we provide one format via OOo then we can provide all popular formats(pdf, doc, docx, odf). The cost of exporting extra formats is quite low.
Again this proposal is not about office exporter which needs a lot more work...
Thanks, Florin Ciubotaru
And, in addition, .doc is a binary, proprietary and secret format, and we try to encourage open and/or standard formats.
Yet, a large share of XWiki users are still using older versions of the MS Office suite, which makes .doc almost mandatory...
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