SchemaSoft's tools are capable of extracting data found in a variety of formats including those used by Microsoft Office documents, Adobe Systems' Portable Document Format as well as those used by Quark and others, the software maker states on its...
The formats and standards governing communications methodologies are rapidly changing, and the creators of this information are challenged with how they cost-effectively create, deliver and manage that information," Chizen said.
However, Microsoft executives have consistently said that the company will not support OpenDocument natively and rely instead on "filters" to convert formats. The state on Wednesday posted the final version of its Enterprise Technical Reference...
Microsoft said it plans to sponsor an open source project to create software that will convert Office documents to OpenDocument, a rival format gaining ground, particularly among governments. Although Microsoft Office document formats are the most...
we were expecting that people would build a tool to convert between them. Next year, the Open XML Translator project, done primarily by developers at French company Clever Age, intends to create converters that can translate between Microsoft's...
A Microsoft-sponsored open source project is expected to today release a translator that will convert file formats between Microsoft Office and rival standard OpenDocument, or ODF. Microsoft started the project at SourceForge last year, relying on...