OpenDocument Text (. odt ), Rich Text Format (. rtf ), and text documents (. txt ).

Standards developed jointly with ISO such as ISO / IEC 26300, Open Document Format for Office Applications ( OpenDocument ) v1. 0 carry the acronym of both organizations.

The term modern can be used for a fixed-pitch generic font family name used in OpenDocument format ( ISO / IEC 26300: 2006 ) and Rich Text Format.

OpenOffice. org inherited many features from the original StarOffice upon which it was based, including the OpenOffice. org XML file format which it retained until version 2, when the ISO / IEC standard OpenDocument Format ( ODF ) replaced it.

* OpenDocument — OASIS Open Document Format for Office Applications, an open document file format for saving office documents such as spreadsheets, memos, charts, and presentations.

* OpenDocument Format ( ODF ) ( a specification by OASIS for office document formats, approved by ISO as ISO / IEC 26300 )

# OASIS Open Document Format For Office Applications ( OpenDocument ) v. 1. 1

The Open Document Format for Office Applications ( ODF ), also known as OpenDocument ( OD ), is an XML-based file format for spreadsheets, charts, presentations and word processing documents.

In addition to being an OASIS standard, version 1. 1 is published as an ISO / IEC international standard, ISO / IEC 26300: 2006 / Amd 1: 2012-Open Document Format for Office Applications ( OpenDocument ) v1. 1.

*: OpenDocument Format ( ODF ) database-file-extension used on database and connection files

; ODF Toolkit: Java modules that allow programmatic creation, scanning and manipulation of OpenDocument Format ( ISO / IEC 26300 == ODF ) documents

It reads and writes its own document format (. tmd ), Microsoft Word (. doc ), OpenDocument (. odt ), Pocket Word (. psw,. pwd ), Rich Text Format (. rtf ), HTML 4. 0 (. htm ), and plain text files (. txt ).

The default file format for OpenOffice. org Calc ( versions 2. x and 3. x ) can be set to either Microsoft Excel's native file format or the international standard OpenDocument Format ( ODF ) ISO / IEC 26300: 2006.

Scholars have suggested that the " OpenDocument standard is the wedge that can hold open the door for competition, particularly with regard to the specific concerns of the public sector.

" Indeed, adoption by the public sector has risen considerably since the promulgation of the OpenDocument format initiated the 2005 / 2006 time period.

One objective of open formats like OpenDocument is to guarantee long-term access to data without legal or technical barriers, and some governments have come to view open formats as a public policy issue.

Subsequently, in September 2005, Massachusetts became the first state to formally endorse OpenDocument formats for its public records and, at the same time, reject proprietary formats such those used in Microsoft's Office software suite.

In September 2005, Sun released StarOffice 8 ( based on the code of OpenOffice. org 2. 0 ), adding support for the OpenDocument standard and a number of improvements.

Doug Mahugh-while working for Microsoft ( a promoter of Office Open XML, a Microsoft document format competing with OASIS's ISO / IEC 26300, i. e. OpenDocument ) as a Senior Product Manager specializing in Office client interoperability-claimed that many countries have expressed frustration about the pace of OASIS's responses to defect reports that have been submitted on ISO / IEC 26300 and the inability for SC 34 members to participate in the maintenance of ODF.

* OpenDocumentFormat. org Portal for consumers, business users and developers with information on OpenDocument format.

In addition, a collaborative effort between the GIMP developers and Krita developers is underway to design a raster file format called OpenRaster, modelled on the OpenDocument format, for use in both applications in a future version.

SoftMaker claims to be working on ODF compliant file formats, but currently supports OpenDocument only in the word processor.

Text from PDFs, HTML, Microsoft Word, and OpenDocument documents, as well as many others ( except images ), can all be indexed as long as their textual information can be extracted.

* OpenDocument XML. org The official community gathering place and information resource for the OpenDocument OASIS Standard ( ISO / IEC 26300 ).

* OpenDocument Presentation, a standard mobile electronic office documents file format made by Sun Microsystems ( OpenOffice. org XML ), standards set by OASIS technical committee.

Text can be imported from OpenDocument text documents, as well as OpenOffice. org Writer, Microsoft Word, PDB ( Palm OS ) and HTML formats ( although some limitations apply ).

* OpenDocument —. odt ( XML-based standard for office documents, ISO standard from 2006 )

* OpenDocument, an international standard ( ISO / IEC 26300 ) for saving and exchanging editable office documents

The other solution is the development of standardized non-proprietary file formats ( such as HTML and OpenDocument ), and electronic documents for specialized uses have specialized formats – the specialized electronic articles in physics use TeX or PostScript.

Google Desktop can index several different types of data, including email, web browsing history from Internet Explorer, Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox, office documents in the OpenDocument and Microsoft Office formats, instant messenger transcripts from AOL, Google, MSN, Skype, Tencent QQ, and several multimedia file types.

*. ODT, the word processing file format of OpenDocument, an open standard for electronic documents

Examples of XML-based open standards are DocBook, XHTML, and, more recently, the ISO / IEC standards OpenDocument ( ISO 26300: 2006 ) and Office Open XML ( ISO 29500: 2008 ).

The format differs from other well-known open formats for text ( such as HTML and OpenDocument ) in that it's primarily semantic rather than presentational ; the semantics and interpretation of every tag and attribute are specified.

This may include conversion of resources from one file format to another ( e. g., conversion of Microsoft Word to PDF or OpenDocument ), from one operating system to another ( e. g., Windows to GNU / Linux ) or from one programming language to another ( e. g., C to Java ) so the resource remains fully accessible and functional.

In addition, OpenDocument does not support change tracking in elements like tables or MathML.

In April 2008 Corel released their WordPerfect Office X4 office suite containing the new X4 version of WordPerfect which includes support for PDF editing, OpenDocument and Office Open XML.

This version includes improved support for PDF, Microsoft Office 2007, OpenDocument, and Office Open XML.

The version included in Mac OS X v10. 5 includes read and write support for Office Open XML and OpenDocument Text.

StarOffice supports the OpenOffice. org XML file format, as well as the OpenDocument standard, and can generate PDF and Flash formats.

Product Update 5 added Windows NT 4. 0 as a supported platform and incorporated support for the OpenDocument file-format.

StarOffice 9, released in November 2008, added support for version 1. 2 of the OpenDocument standard and Microsoft Office 2007 files and a number of other improvements.