Portable File Format

[mark at buttery.org (Mark J. Dulcey)]

dsr at tao.merseine.nu wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 11:03:40AM -0800, MC Bouman wrote:
>> Is there a portable file format in OO1.1.3? MCB
> 
> No, there are only write-once, read-never formats.
> 
> (What does portable mean? OO will save and read documents in
> RTF, some Word dialects, ASCII, and a bunch of others. Export to
> PDF is trivial. Spreadsheets can be saved and read in various
> Lotus and Excel formats.)

If portability is an issue, though, you might prefer to upgrade to 
OO1.1.5 (or the newer OO2.0, if you prefer), which includes OpenDocument 
support.