ODF Applications’ Interchangeability Needs Improvement

Thursday, 2008-November-13

Just a quick note to point out that too often, a document created in OpenOffice.org will have a different appearance in KOffice. This is even without using any scripting (I know zero StarBasic).

I have done informal comparisons of both word processor and spreadsheet documents, and in either case, we need to help them improve interoperability, perhaps by improving compliance with the standard.

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