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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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Friday, February 15, 2008 6:33 PM

Binary Documentation (.doc, .xls, .ppt) and Translator Project Site are now live

As promised last month , the binary documentation (.doc, .xls, .ppt) is now live. In addition to this, the project to create an open source translator (binary -> Open XML) has now been formed on sourceforge, and the development roadmap has been published.
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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 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, December 12, 2007 11:24 AM

Office 2007 SP1 is now available

SP1 for Office 2007 is now available for download. One of the interesting fixes we made was based on some problems we found when you tried to use the ODF translator that Sun has built for Office. Malte Timmermann pointed out on his blog back in the summer
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Friday, July 06, 2007 11:51 AM

Friday links (July 6, 2007)

A couple interesting topics I wanted to link to today: Rick Jelliffe makes my week – Rick has a great post called "Slashdotters: all together now… 'Doh!'" that pretty well sums up my experiences over the past several years. When we first announced the
Posted by BrianJones | 54 Comments
Monday, March 12, 2007 9:48 AM

How to create and consume OpenXML formats

With all the talk last week of the OpenXML support that is now in OpenOffice , I thought it would also be worthwhile reminding folks that if you have an older version of Microsoft Office, you can also work with the OpenXML formats. There is a compatibility
Posted by BrianJones | 2 Comments
Monday, March 05, 2007 11:06 AM

Novell talks about the OpenXML support in OpenOffice

There's a little blurb up on the Novell PR blog talking a bit more about the OpenXML translator release: http://www.novell.com/prblogs/?p=299 Novell is cooperating with Microsoft and others on an open source project to create the bi-directional translator
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Friday, March 02, 2007 6:12 PM

OpenOffice support for the OpenXML formats

I just saw that the Novell folks have released a version of OpenOffice with support for the Ecma Office Open XML formats ( http://download.novell.com/SummaryFree.jsp?buildid=ESrjfdE4U58~ ). They announced this work awhile ago, but this is the first chance
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Friday, February 23, 2007 6:17 PM

Bulk upgrade your binary files to OpenXML

The Office Migration Planning Manager (OMPM) was released earlier this week. It's a tool that helps folks who are going to manage and upgrade to the latest version of Office (2007). Among other things, it will do a scan of your network to identify Office
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Friday, February 02, 2007 9:50 AM

ODF to OpenXML conversion complete

Huge news to wrap up the week! The open source project for creating a translator between the ODF text format and the OpenXML wordprocessing format has announced the release of version 1.0 of the tool ( http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=660889
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