SahwaMar 8

LibreOffice criticizes EU Commission over proprietary XLSX formats

https://reddthat.com/post/61544796

LibreOffice criticizes EU Commission over proprietary XLSX formats - Reddthat

>The Foundation sees this as a contradiction to the EU’s own interoperability goals. Although XLSX is standardized as OOXML according to ISO/IEC 29500, Microsoft’s implementations often deviate from the specifications. Furthermore, features often change undocumented, which complicates compatibility with open-source software such as LibreOffice.

Show threadtwinnieMar 8
I kinda get it though. I think every single time in my life I’ve sent a document in the non-Microsoft format I’ve got a reply saying they couldn’t open it. That’s from LibreOffice and from Mac.
Show threadSv443Mar 8
Trying to get tech illiterate people to use LibreOffice and to export their documents as PDF but they just keep sending the original files every single time… nightmare material
Show threadTetsuoMar 8

“Don’t use that proprietary format ! Use PDF instead !”

PDF is also an issue.

Show threadGoodlucksil
Do you have a better idea, pal?
Mar 8 at 1:46pmWeb
Show threadTetsuoMar 8

This is a conversation about the issue of proprietary formats in our institutions.

And I think PDF is a problem in that regard. It’s not fully open and the format still can break. Forms in particular are still very problematics. Forms are very useful in institutions…