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The Interoperability of
Documents
(Was: The war of fle format)
LibreOfce mini Conference, Japan, 2017
Franklin Weng
LibreOfce Migration Professional / Certifee Trainer
Member, Certifcation Committee, The Document Founeation
Presieent, BoD of Software Liberty Association Taiwan
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In This Session
Originally I'd like to focus on
comparing ODF and OOXML
But I found an even more important point
So I'm going to talk about documents'
Interoperability
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Document Generation And
Interoperation in Ancient China
Source：https://goo.gl/wpL2QY
Source：https://goo.gl/bMnvPH
（良い馬）
(The Emperor said: "I got it.")
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Document Generation in 20th Century
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Document Generation in 20th Century
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Document "Interoperation" In Old Days
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Therefore, In The Old Days
What we learn was to generate
"beautiful" documents.
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Therefore, In Old Days
We try to just "put" words to the position.
(So we use Space to move words,
and Enter to change pages)
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Therefore, In Old Days
We try to just "put" words to the position.
(So we use Space to move words,
and Enter to change pages)
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Therefore, In Old Days
We try to just "put" words to the position.
(So we use Space to move words,
and Enter to change pages)
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Therefore, In Old Days
We try to just "put" words to the position.
(So we use Space to move words,
and Enter to change pages)
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Therefore, In Old Days
We try to just "put" words to the position.
(So we use Space to move words,
and Enter to change pages)
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Therefore, In Old Days
We try to just "put" words to the position.
(So we use Space to move words,
and Enter to change pages)
Some mean bosses would ask for
"aligning with no error"
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Therefore, In Old Days
We try to just "put" words to the position.
(So we use Space to move words,
and Enter to change pages)
Some mean bosses would ask for
"aligning with no error"
So we use "Invisible table" to align
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Therefore, In Old Days
We try to just "put" words to the position.
(So we use Space to move words,
and Enter to change pages)
Some mean bosses would ask for
"aligning with no error"
So we use "Invisible table" to align
We used special fonts and
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All Of The Above
Had no any problem in old days
because we mainly used "paper-
based documents".
However, in the new era we start
to use digital documents, and
problems arise….....
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Document Interoperability Now
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When Receiving Digital Documents
Receivers may not be able to open
(because no software or different
version)
Receivers may not be able to see the
contents (because no such fonts)
Receivers may not understand the
contents (because the document's
typesetting is in a mess)
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In 21st Century
Document Interoperability
≠
Document Exchanging
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In 21st Century
Document Interoperability
=
Working together better
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So, We Need To Understand
How to generate an
"interoperable" document
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Interoperable
Documents
Open spec,
stable file
format
standard
Correct
concept of
generating
documents
Use open
fonts
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1. File Format
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De-jure and De-facto Standards
OOXML
Office Open XML
ODF
OpenDocument Format
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Using OOXML as Standard...
Office 2007
Office 2003
2003 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17
Office 2010
Office 2013
Office
2016
Office 2000
Office XP
Office 97
Office 95
Office 4.3
Office 4.0
Office 3.0
Have you ever tried to generate a docx file
with Office 2013 and open it with Office 2007?
Can it be opened successfully?
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Open Document Format
Selected as national standards of
file format in UK, France,
Sweden, …… and Taiwan
Open
spec
ISO
Standard
Simple,
Stable
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No content
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4.0.0 – 5 years ago!
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Save exactly the same content
L
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#Lines of Content XML
File Version XML Lines
ODF 1.2 (any version of) LibreOffice 222
ODF 1.2 Microsoft Office 2013 Windows 541
ODF 1.2 Microsoft Office 2016 Windows 496
OOXML (any version of) LibreOffice 1157
OOXML 2013 Transitional (MS Office Windows) 1590
OOXML 2013 Save as Strict (MS Office Windows) 11861
OOXML 2013 Strict (MS Office Windows) 1588
OOXML 2016 Transitional (MS Office Windows) 11667
OOXML 2016 Save as Strict (MS Office Windows) 11665
OOXML 2016 Strict (MS Office Windows) 11665
OOXML 2011 Transitional (MS Office MacOS) 12854
OOXML 2016 Transitional (MS Office MacOS) 11646
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Simple Test Content
To be, or not to be, that is the question.
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Saved as ODT by LibreOffice
To be, or not to be,
that is the question.
(XML tag rewritten for easier understand)
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Saved as DOCX by MS Office
To
[space]
be
,
[space]
or
[space]
not
[space]
to
[space]
be
,
[space]
that
[space]
is
[space]
the
[space]
question
.
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2. Concept of
generating documents
(typesetting)
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Correct Concept of Typesetting
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Correct Concept of Typesetting
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Correct Concept of Typesetting
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Correct Concept of Typesetting
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3. Open Fonts
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Open Fonts
Do you know…
Each font has its own license?
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Microsoft C-Fonts
Source：Italo Vignoli
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Microsoft Japanese/Chinese Fonts
●
MS 明朝 (Japanese)
●
MS Gothic (Japanese)
● 微軟正黑體 (Chinese)
Do you know their license?
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Open Font: Noto Sans / Serif
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Open Chinese/English Fonts
●
Japanese Fonts
– Noto Sans CJK JP（SIL Open Font
License）、Noto Serif CJK JP（SIL Open Font）
https://www.google.com/get/noto/
– Kochi Mingcho (東風明朝)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kochi_font
●
English fonts
– Liberation Fonts (SIL Open Font License)
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From now on,
Learn to generate Interoperable Documents!
Source：Italo Vignoli