Preparing to convince to shift to non-propriety documents formats

[Shlomi Fish]

Hi,

On Mon, 20 Feb 2012 11:29:41 +0200
Yedidyah Bar-David <linux-il at didi.bardavid.org> wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 10:40:58AM +0200, Nadav Har'El wrote:
> > On Sun, Feb 19, 2012, Dotan Cohen wrote about "Re: Preparing to convince to shift to non-propriety documents formats":
> > > Undocumented? Which file format is that? All the .doc and .docx
> > > formats are documented, even the older binary formats.
> > 
> > Where is the ".doc" format documented?
> > 
> > I once wrote a tool to extract the text in MS Office files (for a search
> > engine). It was a really annoying reverse-engineering-like
> > trial-and-error process, and I could hardly find any documentation.
> > The PowerPoint format (.ppt) was particularly odd.
> > 
> > What documentation do you refer to?
> 
> According to Wikipedia, it's partially documented. I did not follow the
> links inside:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DOC_(computing)#Specification

there's also this (with a link at the top):

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2008/02/19.html

The licence may be problematic.

Regards,

	Shlomi Fish

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