Open Document files in Abiword and OpenOffice

[Karl Larsen]

On 05/19/2010 07:10 AM, Graham Todd wrote:
> Often, when I write some thing in Abiword and save it in .odt (Open
> Document) format, it is not recognised in exactly the same way by Open
> Office. This is the same for text and formatting.
>    
     Yes alas their is no standard format. You get a .odt file from Open 
Office which is very different than what Abiword makes. They are not the 
same! :-(


Too bad 73 Karl




> I thought the Open Document Format was a genuine standard, so in my
> ignorance I assumed that all documents created by a word processor
> supporting this format would recognise it identically.
>
> Can anyone explain why this should not be the case?
>
> Its often less memory intensive to use Abiword than OpenOffice (or.odt
> seems so) and that is the main reason I'm raising this query, but am I
> correct in my assumption that all .odt files should be treated the same
> way by all word processors claiming to support the Open Document
> Format?
>
> If not, how can I be sure that any person to whom I send the .odt files
> will read them as I do, or be able to read them at all?
>
>    


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