Open Document Format (ODF) 1.2 published as International Standard

Berlin, July 17, 2015 - The Open Document Format for Office Applications
(ODF) Version 1.2, the native file format of LibreOffice and many other
applications, has been published as International Standard 26300:2015 by
ISO/IEC. ODF defines a technical schema for office documents including text
documents, spreadsheets, charts and graphical documents like drawings or
presentations.

"ODF 1.2 is the native file format of LibreOffice. Today, ODF is the best
choice for interoperability, because it is widely adopted by applications,
and is respected by applications in every area", says Thorsten Behrens,
Chairman of The Document Foundation. "ODF makes interoperability a reality,
and transforms the use of proprietary document formats into a relic of the
past. In the future, people will tell stories about incompatible document
formats between two releases of proprietary office suites, as a bygone
problem".

ODF is developed by the OASIS consortium. The current version of the
standard was published in 2011, and then was submitted to ISO/IEC in 2014.

The standard is available - in three parts: schema, formula definition and
packages - from the repository of Publicly Available Standards as a free
download from the following links:
1. Schema:
http://documentfoundation.hosted.phplist.com/lists/lt.php...
2. Formula Definition:
http://documentfoundation.hosted.phplist.com/lists/lt.php...
3. Packages:
http://documentfoundation.hosted.phplist.com/lists/lt.php...

The standard is also available from the OASIS ODF TC website, from the page
at the following address:
http://documentfoundation.hosted.phplist.com/lists/lt.php...

ODF 1.2 is supported by all the leading office suites, and by a large
number of other applications. It has been adopted by the UK Cabinet Office
as the reference for all documents exchanged with the UK Government, and is
currently proposed as the reference standard by the Référentiel Général
d'Interopérabilité 1.9.9 of the French Government. In addition, ODF 1.2
has been adopted by many European public administrations.

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