● 10.21.07

●● ODF Support Confirmed by Apple, CDF Introduced by the ODF Foundation

Posted in Apple, Formats, Interoperability, Office Suites, Open XML, OpenDocument at 12:27 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz

We mentioned a forum thread in the past — a thread that indicated Leopard would support ODF. It has just been made more official.

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OpenDocument took another step away from obscurity Tuesday, as Apple confirmed that Mac OS X version 10.5 — known as “Leopard” — will natively support ODF files, alongside Microsoft’s Word 2007 formats. Apple had previously added support for the format in its Pages word processing application.

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Meanwhile, the OpenDocument Foundation works towards ensuring that there is interoperability. It has just published a page that introduces CDF.

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Information about our transition to CDF and our work on Universal Interoperability is referenced in documents located at “The Universal Interoperability Resource Center”.

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Related article: Apple Beats Microsoft at its Own Open XML Game

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