RE: [libreoffice-users] Re: OASIS Standard ODF 1.2 Approved

Whether a down-level software version will even accept an ODF 1.2 document as if it is a down-level 
document and do the best it can is not something the ODF specifications address.  It depends on the 
down-level product.  

It probably works with OpenOffice.org versions, but maybe not with other lineages.  

For example, the Microsoft Office ODF 1.1 support tends to be strict and will consider some ODF 1.2 
documents as possibly-corrupted, although when asked to attempt to correct the document, it 
succeeds.  

There are some uses of new features (such as digital signatures) that fail in amazing ways between 
implementations, even when they are all identified as 1.2 products.

In these edge situations, usually the only assured-to-be-successful consumer is a version of the 
same product that produced the document.  There is work to do in that area.  It may take a year or 
two for ODF 1.2 support to settle down and the level of interoperability to be raised across the 
board.

-----Original Message-----
From: Pedro [mailto:pedlino@gmail.com] 
Sent: Saturday, October 01, 2011 05:16
To: users@global.libreoffice.org
Subject: [libreoffice-users] Re: OASIS Standard ODF 1.2 Approved


Tom wrote:
> If you do have an older program then install any version of LibreOffice
> instead! ;) Lol

Hi Tom ;)

That was exactly my point. I hope that is not necessary.

If I'm sending a document to someone with an old machine running OpenOffice
1.0 (or whatever worked with ODF 1.0) I hope that I can send him an ODF 1.2
file and he still will be able to open it (even if he looses some format)

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