Tips & Tricks Archive

Advent Resource #16: Two Academic Research about LibreOffice

skovdeJonas Gamalielsson and Björn Lundell, of the University of Skövde in Sweden, have extensively studied the LibreOffice project. They have published two different papers in 2012 and 2014, which represent a very interesting reading.

Gamalielsson J. – Lundell

Advent Resource #15: Open Document Format website

odfThe Open Document Format website is managed by the OpenDoc Society. It is another useful resource for ODF advocates and especially for developers, as it offers an overview of

Advent Resource #14: OASIS Open Document Format for Office Applications (OpenDocument) TC

odf-tcThe website of the OASIS Open Document Format (ODF) for Office Applications Technical Committee is a fundamental resource for all people advocating the standard or deploying it within organizations of any size.

The

Advent Resource #13: Oasis Open Document Essentials

odf-essentialsOASIS OpenDocument Essentials is a comprehensive book about the Open Document Format (ODF), published by O’Reilly under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.

The book covers the following topics: the Open Document

Advent Resource #12: Rob Weir on ODF

ieee-weirOpen Document Format (ODF) is the native file format of LibreOffice, and of many other enterprise and personal productivity applications. ODF is an XML-based open standard file format for office documents, such

Advent Resource #11: ODF vs OOXML

odf_220-03aAndy Updegrove is a standards advocate, and has supported ODF since its inception. He is the author of Consortium Info, and of the related blog about standards.

Between November 2007 and January 2008 he has summarized in a series of five