June 2007 - Posts

Delhi Open XML workshop
28 June 07 05:13 AM

We had a 2-day Open XML workshop in Delhi this week, for local software developers and members of the technical committee working on the Open XML spec (DIS 29500). TC members included people from the BIS (Bureau of Indian Standards) as well as representatives Read More...

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San Francisco workshop
22 June 07 10:48 AM

We had an Open XML developer workshop in San Francisco this week, with a couple of new twists. One new twist was that it was hosted by Mindjet , the developer/publisher of MindManager . They provided a great facility for us to use, and tolerated a lot Read More...

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Open XML links for 06-13-2007
13 June 07 07:39 PM

Professor Flavio Soares da Silva from the University of Sao Paulo has an interesting article on "Arguments in Favor of a Controlled Plurality of Office Formatting Standards." "If we end up with too many standards, the usability and interoperability of Read More...

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Open XML links for 06-08-2007
08 June 07 05:30 AM

Preeti Krishna has announced new drops of the Excel and PowerPoint converters for ODF 1.0 formats over on the ODF translator team blog. In addition to the hard-working people at CleverAge, Aztecsoft, and DiaLOGIKa, the project now includes members of Read More...

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Open XML links for 06-06-2007
06 June 07 02:09 PM

Ted Neward's InfoQ article "Using Java to Crack Office 2007" provides a nice overview of Open XML development in Java. "It's exciting and inspiring to consider how open the Office platform is to the Java programmer. Between the interoperability of using Read More...

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Microsoft SDK for Open XML
05 June 07 08:01 AM

I was so busy with activities related to the announcement of the new SDK yesterday that I didn't get a chance to blog about it. And now, the morning after, I don't have much to add to all the great posts that have been written by my colleagues around Read More...

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Open XML numbering options
02 June 07 03:51 AM

What kind of numbering options do people need in word-processing documents? That's a pretty open-ended question, and the answer depends on what you mean by "people." If you're just talking about people in the United States or other Western countries, Read More...

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Open XML links for 06-01-2007
01 June 07 05:21 AM

Spreadsheet formatting. Brian Jones's post on " Simple SpreadsheetML file Part 3 - Formatting " is a great tutorial on how to format cells in Open XML spreadsheets. The basic concept is that you define various fonts, fills, and borders in the styles part, Read More...

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