[Hamara-devel] odf and odfautotests

[shirish]

Hi all,

Sam's talks about the pdf format led me thinking as to where and how odf 
is faring. It is perhaps one of the free file formats which people use 
or could use and was wondering if there is anywhere where I could get 
some good documentation as well as see some ways in which a document 
could be tested.

So my journey started with many a links and ended at

https://github.com/vandenoever/odfautotests/blob/master/doc/01_introduction.md

I really like the introduction as it makes people aware how the .odf 
file is actually internally, what files are present inside it and how it 
is structured as well as how the tests can be configured and run and 
seen if the output passes in different applications.

I also came across webodf by the same author which also claims to put an 
output to pdf as well (in case if its needed.) . It is a library so you 
can use .odf on the cloud.

http://www.vandenoever.info/blog/2011/02/23/converting-odf-documents-pdf-webodf.html

http://webodf.org/

The features and roadmap are something that needs to be seen -

http://webodf.org/about/features.html

http://webodf.org/about/roadmap.html

The only change would be the first link from gitorious to github

https://github.com/vandenoever/WebODF

What is interesting is the gentleman concerned is somebody who is 
employed by the Netherlands Govt. and is part of a ministry thee.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ministry_of_the_Interior_and_Kingdom_Relations_%28Netherlands%29

https://github.com/vandenoever


Last but not the least, it seems that there have been odfplugfests 
happening for almost 10 years now, last year it was in London, this year 
it was in Hague (Netherlands)

http://odfplugfest.org/

So there seems to be some support for .odf and maintaining it as well.

-- 
Regards,
Shirish Agarwal,
Community Lead,
Hamaralinux.org