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Euro-Office, Europe's open-source alternative to Microsoft Office and Google Docs, launches June 9 (nextcloud.com)
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cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/tech/p/1161559/sovereign-office-suite-euro-office-to-release-june-9

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[–] Railison@aussie.zone 9 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Any word on whether it’ll actually write ODF, even if not as default? IIRC OnlyOffice doesn’t write ODF

[–] _lilith@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

"For a truly sovereign solution, it is also important to fully support open standards such as ODF formats, and this will be on top of the agenda for the next release.”"

[–] K3LOE@lemmy.radio 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Yeah, looks like my Ubuntu copy of OnlyOffice only writes ODT or OTT, not ODF.

[–] muhyb@programming.dev 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)

ODF is the name of the formats not the extension.

[–] K3LOE@lemmy.radio 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

.ODF is listed as an extension for "formulae, mathematical equations" on that Wikipedia page.

[–] muhyb@programming.dev 4 points 3 days ago

People tend to mix ODT with ODF so I jumped to a conclusion, sorry about that.

OnlyOffice indeed doesn't support .ODF because it doesn't natively support any open document format and convert from MS formats to open formats (learned this today actually) and since MS Office doesn't have a math format like LibreOffice it's expected that OnlyOffice doesn't support .ODF at all. It's quite interesting. I didn't know that LibreOffice and OnlyOffice are fundamentally different like this.

[–] muhyb@programming.dev 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

May I ask what are you talking about? Of course they support OpenDocumentFormat as you can see here. ODF is not the extension, it's the name of the formats.

[–] hard_zero1@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

OnlyOffice does not natively support ODF, only after conversion ODF files can be viewed and edited: https://helpcenter.onlyoffice.com/docs/userguides/document_editor/supportedformats.aspx The page doesn't say anything about writing, so it may not be possible

[–] muhyb@programming.dev 4 points 3 days ago

Huh, didn't actually know that it doesn't support ODF natively. Thanks for making me notice this.

So that's why it shows MS Office files better than LibreOffice. It doesn't use ODF as its base.