On Wed, Sep 20, 2006 at 08:42:49AM -0500, Steven P. Ulrick wrote: > On Wed, 20 Sep 2006 13:01:21 +0200 > "Trond Danielsen" <trond.danielsen@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > On 9/20/06, Trond Danielsen <trond.danielsen@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > In conclusion, on a fully updated FC5 machine running KDE from KDE's > Branch 3.5 (compiled from source), with the Abiword that is currently > in Fedora Extras (version 2.4.5) ODT documents created in Abiword open > perfectly on OpenOffice.org 2.0.3, Abiword 2.4.5 and KWord 1.6 beta 1. > This is all with no tweaking on my part. I just did "yum install > abiword" and everything just worked. > Having just written an article on FOSS tools for technical writers for the Society for Technical Communications' journal, I was a bit disconcerted by Mr. Danielsen's assertion. I concur with Mr. Ulrick: Abiword can save a document in ODF. For a quick acceptance test, I was able to round trip a document with no fancy formatting. Possibly Mr. Danielsen accidentally saved the document in some other format? In Abiword, File -> Save As. In the "Save file as type" widget, select "OpenDocument (.odt)". Saving it this way provides the extension. Open in the ODF app of your choice. abiword.i386 1:2.4.5-2.fc5 openoffice.org-core.i386 1:2.0.2-5.17.2 [ccurley@dragon ~]$ file abiword.odt abiword.odt: OpenDocument Text -- Charles Curley /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign Looking for fine software \ / Respect for open standards and/or writing? X No HTML/RTF in email http://www.charlescurley.com / \ No M$ Word docs in email Key fingerprint = CE5C 6645 A45A 64E4 94C0 809C FFF6 4C48 4ECD DFDB
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