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 threadSv443
PDF can be opened anywhere, that’s my point.
Mar 8 at 1:55pmWeb
Show threadTetsuoMar 8

* Only if you dont use the many still proprietary extensions of PDF I suppose.

Anyway I’m not sure following the Adobe standard in our institutions is the smartest move.

Show threadSv443Mar 8
Not solely, but since sooooo many documents are already only available in PDF, you need to support it for backwards compat alone, plus all the people who just wouldn’t migrate their data to a new format because the old one still works for them.