Re: [Fsfe-uk] Health Service departments unable to read AbiWord attachments

[Matt Lee]

> If so, is it one which is in fact supported by free software like OO?   
> A
> lot of places say they want MSWord, for example, but I can give them  
> the
> OO exported version and it works fine.

That's what I'd do, or even RTF or PDF. PDF is always good.

Here's an example of AbiWord document.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE abiword PUBLIC "-//ABISOURCE//DTD AWML 1.0 Strict//EN"  
"http://www.abisource.com/awml.dtd";>
<abiword template="false" styles="unlocked"  
xmlns:fo="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Format";  
xmlns:svg="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg";  
xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"; fileformat="1.1"  
xmlns:math="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML";  
xmlns:awml="http://www.abisource.com/awml.dtd";  
xmlns="http://www.abisource.com/awml.dtd";  
xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"; version="2.0.12"  
xml:space="preserve" props="dom-dir:ltr; lang:en-US">
<!--  
======================================================================== 
 -->
<!-- This file is an AbiWord document.                                   
      -->
<!-- AbiWord is a free, Open Source word processor.                      
      -->
<!-- More information about AbiWord is available at  
http://www.abisource.com/ -->
<!-- You should not edit this file by hand.                              
      -->
<!--  
======================================================================== 
 -->

<metadata>
<m key="dc.format">application/x-abiword</m>
<m key="abiword.generator">AbiWord</m>
<m key="abiword.date_last_changed">Thu Feb 24 15:33:32 2005</m>
</metadata>
<styles>
<s type="P" name="Normal" followedby="Current Settings"  
props="text-indent:0in; margin-top:0pt; margin-left:0pt;  
font-stretch:normal; line-height:1.0; text-align:left;  
bgcolor:transparent; lang:en-US; dom-dir:ltr; margin-bottom:0pt;  
text-decoration:none; font-weight:normal; font-variant:normal;  
color:000000; text-position:normal; font-size:12pt; margin-right:0pt;  
font-style:normal; widows:2; font-family:Times New Roman"/>
</styles>
<pagesize pagetype="A4" orientation="portrait" width="210.000000"  
height="297.000000" units="mm" page-scale="1.000000"/>
<section props="page-margin-right:15.0mm; page-margin-footer:15.0mm;  
page-margin-header:15.0mm; page-margin-left:15.0mm;  
page-margin-top:15.0mm; page-margin-bottom:15.0mm">
<p style="Normal" props="text-align:right"><c props="font-weight:bold;  
font-family:Luxi Sans; font-size:16pt; font-style:italic">Hello  
World</c></p>
</section>
</abiword>

So, that's XML, but it's not even a standard like the OASIS file  
formats that OO.o uses.

matt

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