On Mon, 2011-05-16 at 14:21 +0200, Herbert Graeber wrote:
Am 16.05.2011 11:30, schrieb Per Jessen:
Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
the error. And, of course, MS file formats are not publicly documented. I thought they were just that - were they not made into ISO standards? What they standardized is not what their software uses...
I do not think the older .doc format is an ISO standard. The newer XML format (.docx) is a based on a standard. But I bet there is lots of room for interpretation. And I bet many features are optional. The fact that there is a standard does not mean that MS are required to follow it. Even if they were a big part of making the standard. So, in the 'simple' case of anchoring images in text, MS Word could be using some optional and obscure part of the standard to control this. Did OO/LO interpret these parts of the standard the same way? Who is to say. In other ISO standards we use, there is often a description of test data that can be used to verify an implementation. At least this the case in many engineering standards. I wonder if there are test documents to see how well an application follows this document standard. Probably not. But if there were, it would be interesting to see how the various software implementations around the standard hold up. Sigh. Yours sincerely, Roger Oberholtzer OPQ Systems / Ramböll RST Office: Int +46 10-615 60 20 Mobile: Int +46 70-815 1696 roger.oberholtzer@ramboll.se ________________________________________ Ramböll Sverige AB Krukmakargatan 21 P.O. Box 17009 SE-104 62 Stockholm, Sweden www.rambollrst.se -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org