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OpenDocument Voted In By ISO

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the well-isn't-that-special dept.

cduffy writes "OpenDocument has been voted in as ISO/IEC 26300, with no dissenting votes and a small number of abstentions. There are still several formalities to take place before final issuance. Now the question: Will OpenXML get the same treatment, despite its technical weaknesses? There's also coverage on Groklaw."

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  1. Re:Good news by CastrTroy · · Score: 5, Informative

    I just tried it. MS Word 2002. New document no text, 20 KB. 500 Words from Lorem Ipsum, 23 K. 300 pages of that same first page repeated. 1,128 KB. OpenOffice.org 2.0. New Document no text, 6 KB. Same 500 words from lorem ipsum, 10 KB. 300 Pages of repeated text, 22 KB. Wow, too easily compressed. Lets try 300 pages of non repeated text. 329 KB. You save quite a bit. I find that once you start adding images and other things like that, you end up saving even more space.

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