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Subject: Introduction
Hi everyone, I've been meaning to introduce myself for a while. I recently joined the TC as a representative Tonic Systems: http://tonicsystems.com/ We primarily provide enterprise developer tools for creating and processing PowerPoint documents server-side. We also recently released a free cross-platform PowerPoint viewer (written in Java). Our knowledge of the PowerPoint file format is exclusively through reverse engineering, so the value of open formats is pretty clear to me :-) We are interested in adding support for OpenDocument formats to our products, in particular: - conversion between OpenDocument and PowerPoint 97-2007 - rendering of OpenDocument presentations I have personally done significant work on the latter, but was stymied by some ambiguities, underspecification, and interoperability issues in the OpenDocument spec, primarily in the drawing portion. I posted most of the issues to the opendocument-users list, but to date they have not received much attention, so we decided that taking an active role in the technical committee might be helpful. For reference, here are links to the threads: http://www.oasis-open.org/archives/opendocument-users/200601/msg00003.html http://www.oasis-open.org/archives/opendocument-users/200601/msg00007.html http://www.oasis-open.org/archives/opendocument-users/200601/msg00008.html http://www.oasis-open.org/archives/opendocument-users/200601/msg00009.html http://www.oasis-open.org/archives/opendocument-users/200601/msg00010.html http://www.oasis-open.org/archives/opendocument-users/200601/msg00013.html http://www.oasis-open.org/archives/opendocument-users/200601/msg00014.html http://www.oasis-open.org/archives/opendocument-users/200601/msg00015.html http://www.oasis-open.org/archives/opendocument-users/200601/msg00016.html David Wheeler was also kind enough to forward my report on the inconsistent specification of units to this list: http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/office/200602/msg00075.html I'd appreciate some feedback, if not on the issues themselves then on how best to proceed with getting them resolved. Thanks, Chris
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