Re: [Health-dev] For testing. Immunization report ODT

[Luis Falcon]

Hi Francisco
On Tue, 14 Apr 2020 20:53:36 +0200
Francisco Vila <address@hidden> wrote:

> El 14/4/20 a las 19:59, Francisco Vila escribió:
> >
> > As it happens, you can not just embed the content.xml from a
> > document into another document and expect getting a new working
> > document.
> >
> > You can, however, do the same with styles.xml  
> 
> I think a much better solution for including office documents into any
> [free] software project, is using FODT files instead of ODT, thus
> allowing version tracking. You can readily use them because
> 
> 1. They are 100% compatible with ODT.
> 
> 2. You can even symlink to an FODT from an ODT name, and libreoffice
> will eat it happily.
> 
> FOTD are Flat ODT and they are a whole editable single big XML.
> Perfect!

That sounds excellent, thank you!!

Let's try it, and if it produce better and cleaner documents, I think we
will all be very happy.

> However, they can be bigger in a factor of two or more, in this case
> the reason being that two images, which are unnecessarily too large,
> account for most of the lines.
I don't think that should be much of a problem. Most of the documents
are quite small, so it should not impact much.

Best,
Luis