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Thursday, March 27, 2008 9:31 AM

Another example of Open XML as a submission format...

Just saw this on Pablo's blog : Covering yet another set of scientific disciplines, last month the folks from ArXiv (the largest repository for Physics, also very popular for Math and Computer Science papers) posted the news that they now accept OpenXML
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Wednesday, March 26, 2008 12:31 PM

Video clip of the add-in for authoring Scientific Articles

If you want to get an idea of how the add-in works, Pablo has posted a short video: Pablo suggested skipping to about 4:40 into the video to see the actual solution. For more information on the add-in, check out the blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/exscientia/archive/2008/03/25/short-video-clip-on-the-add-in.aspx
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Thursday, March 20, 2008 10:53 AM

Using Open XML to author scientific and technical articles

Pablo Fernicola has the news today that we've released a tech preview of an article authoring add-in for word 2007. This add-in leverages the Open XML formats to translate into the XML formats defined by the National Library of Medicine. http://blogs.msdn.com/exscientia/archive/2008/03/20/Technology-Preview-Launch.aspx
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Monday, March 10, 2008 1:44 PM

Object embedding in Open XML

There were some concerns raised earlier on that the Open XML format required a specific object embedding to be used (OLE). While it's true that the tag names in the format have "OLE" in them, the embedding is actually generic, and can use other technologies
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Thursday, January 31, 2008 8:29 AM

Links for 1-31-08

A few interesting links I wanted to point out: Content Reuse with Open XML and XSLT – Alexander Falk (Altova's CEO) has a great post giving examples of how to work with Open XML files using XML Spy: "This is the first article in a series of blog postings
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Wednesday, January 30, 2008 1:00 PM

Buzzword now supports reading and writing Open XML

We had all the noise last week about IBM supporting Open XML in a number of their products. Today I learned that Adobe's Buzzword, a web based wordprocessor, now supports reading and writing .docx files. Very cool: http://forum.buzzword.com/viewtopic.php?f=2&p=980
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Friday, January 25, 2008 9:34 AM

Translating OpenXML into DAISY

Reed announced today that the first alpha build of the OpenXML to DAISY translator is now available up on SourceForge: http://blogs.technet.com/reedblog/archive/2008/01/25/open-xml-to-daisy-v1-is-live.aspx This is awesome. It's another example of the
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Thursday, January 17, 2008 4:26 PM

Google support for Open XML formats

I noticed this last week but forgot to blog about it. If you do a google search and the result is an Open XML file (.docx; .xlsx; .pptx) they give you the ability to view them in the browser using their own rendering technology. They support all three
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Thursday, January 17, 2008 1:30 PM

More info on DAISY and OpenXML

Very cool video with the DAISY Consortium's Secretary General George Kerscher discussing DAISY and the project for converting Open XML into DAISY: http://blogs.inquirer.net/techaddicts/2008/01/17/ivdo-daisy-makes-reading-documents-easier-for-the-blind/
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Wednesday, November 14, 2007 8:34 AM

Accessibility of OpenXML

Well, I've come back up for air briefly and wanted to quickly point out to folks a really important announcement we made yesterday . We're teaming up with the DAISY consortium to build translation tools that will convert OpenXML documents into the DAISY
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Wednesday, October 17, 2007 7:13 PM

Open XML links for 10-17-2007

I'm pretty knee deep in work for the next version of Office, as well as the ISO comments on OpenXML, so my blogging over the next few weeks will be pretty limited. I did want to point out a couple links I came across recently though: Mac OS X Leopard
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Wednesday, October 03, 2007 6:23 PM

New Beta of WordPerfect with Open XML and ODF support

Corel just announced the availability of a new beta version of WordPerfect that provides support for both Open XML as well as ODF. They provide for a number of choices in document formats, with Open XML and ODF being the two latest supported formats.
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Friday, September 28, 2007 11:38 AM

Links 09-28-2007

Well I thought I would have time to work more on the FAQ the past couple weeks, but that was naive of me. I've had zero free time, and had to struggle just to get a few free minutes to pull this post together. Hopefully things will slow down soon. (hAl,
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Tuesday, September 04, 2007 8:24 AM

Another word-processor supporting Open XML

It looks like AbiWord, which is an open source word processing application is now working on Open XML support. http://www.abisource.com/twiki/bin/view/Abiword/OpenXMLImport They finished up inline formatting about a month ago, and I'm not sure what they
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Wednesday, August 15, 2007 1:32 PM

Why there’s no “Microsoft” in Open XML

Here are a couple cool screenshots from Stephen McGibbon where he shows an OpenXML spreadsheet file created with Gnumeric (runs on Linux & Windows), and the file is then opened up in Numbers (Apple's new spreadsheet app for the Mac). Gnumeric Numbers
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