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From: Mike Easter on 28 Jun 2010 12:49
Dave Boland wrote:
> pooky wrote:
>> Mike Easter
>>> 2.x and 3.x are the same AFAIK
>>> asfarasiknow.
>>
>> You are correct.
> A document saved as 3.x, then opened under 2.4 gets a notice that
> something is wrong (I forget the exact wording).

I suspect something is 'wrong' - exact wording unavailable.

> So there must be some
> differences between 2.x and 3.x.

No, I suspect something /else/ other than that is wrong - exact wording
still unavailable.


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From: Mike Easter on 28 Jun 2010 13:00
Dave Boland wrote:

> A document saved as 3.x, then opened under 2.4 gets a notice that
> something is wrong (I forget the exact wording). So there must be some
> differences between 2.x and 3.x.

New features introduced in OO3 --
http://www.openoffice.org/dev_docs/features/3.0/
OpenOffice.org 3.0 New Features

Why are you opening a doc (perhaps with some new 3 feature in the doc)
which was produced in 3 in 2.4? Why don't you install/ upgrade to/ 3 in
whatever is currently (still) using 2.4?


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From: Mike Easter on 28 Jun 2010 13:13
Mike Easter wrote:
> Dave Boland wrote:
>
>> A document saved as 3.x, then opened under 2.4 gets a notice that
>> something is wrong (I forget the exact wording). So there must be
>> some differences between 2.x and 3.x.
>
> New features introduced in OO3 --
> http://www.openoffice.org/dev_docs/features/3.0/
> OpenOffice.org 3.0 New Features

<q> ODF 1.2 Support

OpenOffice.org 3.0 already supports the features of the upcoming version
1.2 of the ISO standard OpenDocument Format (ODF). ODF 1.2 includes a
powerful formula language as well as a sophisticated metadata model
based on the W3C standards RDF and OWL. ODF is being mandated and
adopted in a growing number of countries. In addition; ODF is being
implemented by many vendors for many different applications. </q>

OO2.4 doesn't support ODF 1.2. See the earlier wikilink for elaboration
of ODF 1.0, 1.1, and 1.2 introductions.

* Version 1.0 became an OASIS standard on 2005-05-01[18]
* Version 1.1 became an OASIS standard on 2007-02-07[19]

ODF 1.2 is currently in 'draft' status.

Snipped from OO3 help files, general section:

<q> Default file format and ODF settings

ODF format version

OpenOffice.org 3 and StarOffice 9 introduce new features which have to
be saved using the OpenDocument format (ODF) version 1.2. The prior
versions of OpenOffice.org 2 and StarOffice 8 support the file formats
ODF 1.0/1.1. Those prior file formats cannot store all new features of
the new software.

OpenOffice.org 3 and StarOffice 9 can open documents in ODF formats
1.0/1.1 and 1.2.

When you save a document in OpenOffice.org 3 or StarOffice 9, you can
select whether to save the document in the new format ODF 1.2 or in the
prior format ODF 1.0/1.1.

Some companies or organizations may require ODF documents in the ODF
1.0/1.1 format. You can select that format to save in the listbox. This
older format cannot store all new features, so the new format ODF 1.2 is
recommended where possible. </q>

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Mike Easter
From: Craig on 28 Jun 2010 16:40
On 06/28/2010 10:13 AM, Mike Easter wrote:
> When you save a document in OpenOffice.org 3 or StarOffice 9, you can
> select whether to save the document in the new format ODF 1.2 or in the
> prior format ODF 1.0/1.1.
>
> Some companies or organizations may require ODF documents in the ODF
> 1.0/1.1 format. You can select that format to save in the listbox.

I just tried the above in OOo 3.2. No luck. There is no "ODF" in the
drop-down list presented after clicking "save as." Guess I'm missing
something.

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-Craig
From: Mike Easter on 28 Jun 2010 17:04
Craig wrote:
> On 06/28/2010 10:13 AM, Mike Easter wrote:
>> When you save a document in OpenOffice.org 3 or StarOffice 9, you can
>> select whether to save the document in the new format ODF 1.2 or in the
>> prior format ODF 1.0/1.1.
>>
>> Some companies or organizations may require ODF documents in the ODF
>> 1.0/1.1 format. You can select that format to save in the listbox.
>
> I just tried the above in OOo 3.2. No luck. There is no "ODF" in the
> drop-down list presented after clicking "save as." Guess I'm missing
> something.
>
My interpretation of this information and what OO3 looks like:

An ODF Document is called/extension .odt (the default) by OO3 and it is
ODF 1.2 apparently, I haven't examined the markers inside the doc as
described by those links I pasted earlier.

If you want OO3 to save the doc as ODF 1.0/1.1 instead, you should Save
as (verbose Open Office 1.0 Text Document) called/ext .sxw which is the
ODF 1.0/1.1 format which OO2 saves in by default and calls .odt.

My interpretation from this reading is that the OO3 Save as verbose is
misleading because it says OO 1.0, but it actually means 'ODF 1.0/1.1 as
was the default .odt thru' OO 2 but we're calling it .sxw now to prevent
extension confusion for OO3'



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