Open source text document formats, like .odt

[tirengarfio]

Hi,

what is the most extended open source text document format apart from .odt?

You know, I send my teacher a .odt file and told he couldn't read it with his Word, so i should send some file that his Wooooord is able to open my file correctly..

Ciao

[MaxIBoy]

Pdf?

[dox_drum]

I'd say that *.odt files are keeped for us... but in order to work with other people it is better to save them as *.doc

By the way, MS Office has the same problem... if someone send to you a file created in 2007's version, you cannot open it in Office 2003, but with OpenOffice. :D

Ciao anche a t`e.

[dox_drum]

Pdf?

I know people that use the export PDF tool, but some file are not open in acrobat (with windows)... Believe it or not.

[MaxIBoy]

:-? That's weird, the PDF exporter for OpenOffice is supposedly fully standards-compliant.

[dox_drum]

:-? That's weird, the PDF exporter for OpenOffice is supposedly fully standards-compliant.

Yeah! It is.

I don't know if it problem was solved in version 3.0.

[Tibuda]

:-? That's weird, the PDF exporter for OpenOffice is supposedly fully standards-compliant.

I got many exported OpenOffice documents with tables and graphs working fine with Adobe Reader and Foxit Reader in Windows.

If yet your teacher can't open yours PDFs, he can read ODF with Sun's plugin (http://www.sun.com/software/star/odf_plugin/get.jsp), or you can save in MS Word format.

[sydbat]

Or find out if your teacher can have Open Office installed on their computer, either doing it themself or having IT do it for them (if in the school office, the IT department might have blocked installing programs).