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Open XML links for 02-18-2008
18 February 08 09:11 AM
Binary documentation and translator project. On Friday Brian Jones covered the availability of the Office binary formats documentation as a free download, as well as the new Office Binary (doc, xls, ppt) Translator to Open XML . Brian also announced availability
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Video discussion with Brian Jones
07 February 08 11:43 PM
I had a chance last week to talk to Brian Jones about the proposed dispositions to the DIS 29500 comments. We discussed the thinking behind a few typical dispositions as well as the business case for custom XML support and other Open XML topics. The video
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Open XML in Japan
08 January 08 02:22 PM
Open XML Book. Yoko Girier of Toshiba has written a book that provides an overview of the Open XML formats in Japanese. As a member of Ecma TC45, the technical committee that created the Ecma 376 specification, Yoko offers a well-informed view of the
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Open XML blogging in 2007
30 December 07 06:36 PM
It's been quite a year for those who have been blogging about the Open XML file formats. Here's a look back at some of the stories I remember best from this busy year ... January: Brian Jones provides an overview of Passing the Open XML standard off to
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Symbian support for DOCX/XLSX
19 December 07 11:23 PM
Quickoffice Premier 5.0 is the first mobile productivity software suite to support Office 2007 file formats on the S60 platform . The Symbian S60 platform is used by Nokia , Samsung, and many other manufacturers, and you'll find S60 smartphones in the
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XML 2007 Conference
27 November 07 06:08 AM
Next week's XML 2007 conference in Boston features speakers from all sides of the document format debate, including a document interop session with Miguel de Icaza (Novell) and Vijay Rajagopalan (Microsoft) that I expect will offer a lively discussion
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Open XML Portfolio Manager
16 November 07 08:45 PM
An open-source demo application on Codeplex shows how a Java application can generate Open XML spreadsheets to track a stock portfolio, including creation of graphs from a web application. The first release of the code was just uploaded a few days ago
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Open XML to DAISY XML Translator
13 November 07 08:39 AM
Microsoft announced today a project to create a "save as DAISY" plug-in for Word that will be available as a free download on SourceForge . DAISY (Digital Access Information SYstem) is a standard for digital talking books (DTBs). DAISY-encoded DTBs include
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Open XML links for 11-04-2007
04 November 07 03:07 PM
There has been quite a bit of Open XML discussion in the blogosphere recently, and I've not posted on my blog for two weeks (a personal record, if not one to be proud of!), so without further delay here's a recap of some of the posts and articles I've
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document formats legislation in the US
16 October 07 01:06 PM
Shane Peterson, who has been following document formats legislation in the US for some time , has a new article on Public CIO entitled " What Domino Effect? " that takes a close look at how the situation has evolved in Massachussetts and Texas. The article
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XML@Boeing
16 October 07 12:42 PM
There are two rules of blogging that the experts seem to all agree on: don't don't blog about the fact you've not been blogging, and don't post pictures of your cat . So I'll not say anything more about the fact I've been really busy lately and haven't
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WordPerfect Office beta supports Open XML
03 October 07 02:57 PM
Interesting news out of Ottawa today: Corel Corporation (NASDAQ:CREL; TSX:CRE), a leading developer of graphics, productivity and digital media software, today announced a new beta version of Corel® WordPerfect® Office that supports both the Open Document
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OPC implementation test documents
11 September 07 09:03 PM
In my presentation at TechEd SEA yesterday, I explained the importance of writing code against the relationship structure of an OPC package instead of hard-coding URIs that point to specific part names in specific folders. That's a key concept for building
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Voting on DIS 29500
04 September 07 12:23 PM
The voting has closed on the Open XML ballot, and ISO has issued a press release that explains the outcome: The five-month ballot process ended on 2 September and was open to the IEC and ISO national member bodies from 104 countries, including 41 that
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Open XML sans le drame
03 September 07 08:25 PM
I just finished reading the comments posted on a few Open XML blogs over the weekend, a task which took much longer than I expected. My impression is that people want to talk about the outcome of the voting period that ended yesterday, but we don't have
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