Summary: The upcoming version of Office will fully support Strict Open XML and Open Document Format (ODF) 1.2, while Word 2013 will also be able to open and edit PDF files.
The next edition of Workplace will completely assistance two new data file kinds, Tight Start XML and Start Papers Structure 1.2, Ms has declared.
In a writing on Thursday, Workplace requirements primary Jim Thatcher said the inclusion of the new kinds would give customers more choice. He also reiterated that Term 2013 customers would be able to look at and modify PDF records — a function obviously known as "PDF Reflow".
In a writing on Thursday, Workplace requirements primary Jim Thatcher said the inclusion of the new kinds would give customers more choice. He also reiterated that Term 2013 customers would be able to look at and modify PDF records — a function obviously known as "PDF Reflow".
"With these improvements, Ms Workplace now provides complete study assistance for the most regularly used document format requirements," Thatcher had written. "So whichever of these kinds your records are in these days, you will be able to work with them in the next launch of Workplace."
The record of Windows Start XML conventional and its competing Start Papers Structure (ODF) is long and agonizing, as many in the free group saw Workplace Start XML (OOXML, as it was known as at the time) as an effort by Ms to prevent the effectively open ODF with its own pseudo-open format.
The scenario came to a head in 2008, when OOXML won official acceptance, simultaneously through a procedure that some stated had been rigged. The controversy was so warmed that Worldwide Company for Standardization (ISO) classes protecting the procedure attracted actual demonstrations outside the developing.
The beginning edition of the consistent Start XML was officially known as 'Transitional Start XML', as it trusted Microsoft-specific information kinds. Its heir, Tight Start XML, does not depend on such information kinds — it was reinforced in Workplace 2010 to the level that customers could open and modify records in the format, but they could not preserve them in that format.
In the future edition of Workplace, customers can preserve to Tight Start XML. They can also open, modify and preserve records in the ODF 1.2 format, which was consistent last Sept and which contributes functions in areas such as availability and electronic trademark assistance. Succeed 2013 will also for once be able to advantage from the OpenFormula worksheet conventional that is reinforced in ODF 1.2.
However, customers of the future edition of Workplace will no longer be able to preserve to the mature ODF 1.1 format.
As regards Word's newly found PDF-editing abilities, Thatcher was eager to pressure that "the objective is not to make Term into a PDF audience or PDF editor". This echoed what Term system administrator Tristan Davis said at the end of September, namely that Ms was not going for "full-fidelity" PDF performance.
"The objective is to help you to carry the material of PDF data files back into an editable format using Term 2013," Thatcher said.
The record of Windows Start XML conventional and its competing Start Papers Structure (ODF) is long and agonizing, as many in the free group saw Workplace Start XML (OOXML, as it was known as at the time) as an effort by Ms to prevent the effectively open ODF with its own pseudo-open format.
The scenario came to a head in 2008, when OOXML won official acceptance, simultaneously through a procedure that some stated had been rigged. The controversy was so warmed that Worldwide Company for Standardization (ISO) classes protecting the procedure attracted actual demonstrations outside the developing.
The beginning edition of the consistent Start XML was officially known as 'Transitional Start XML', as it trusted Microsoft-specific information kinds. Its heir, Tight Start XML, does not depend on such information kinds — it was reinforced in Workplace 2010 to the level that customers could open and modify records in the format, but they could not preserve them in that format.
In the future edition of Workplace, customers can preserve to Tight Start XML. They can also open, modify and preserve records in the ODF 1.2 format, which was consistent last Sept and which contributes functions in areas such as availability and electronic trademark assistance. Succeed 2013 will also for once be able to advantage from the OpenFormula worksheet conventional that is reinforced in ODF 1.2.
However, customers of the future edition of Workplace will no longer be able to preserve to the mature ODF 1.1 format.
As regards Word's newly found PDF-editing abilities, Thatcher was eager to pressure that "the objective is not to make Term into a PDF audience or PDF editor". This echoed what Term system administrator Tristan Davis said at the end of September, namely that Ms was not going for "full-fidelity" PDF performance.
"The objective is to help you to carry the material of PDF data files back into an editable format using Term 2013," Thatcher said.
