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Since April 2008 there are two ISO certified document
standards, the ODF-Format and Office
Open XML.
Having two competing standards is a worst case
scenario, because documents need to be transformed from one standard to the
other. Two standards are as good as having no standard, it is inefficient and
expensive. Conversion always results in less quality.
Especially public sector authorities need tools to handle both standards,
because they can hardly decide to support only one standard. There is a need for
tools, that efficiently manage the interoperability gap.
Current available converters are implemented as builtin import/export
functions in the office suites or conversion functionality is added
by installing plugins or addins. An installation on the client pc is required.
Depending on format or content, these converters produce output, which can
extremly differ in fidelity.
ODFTrans gives you an elegant solution, an easy to use
interface to make use of more than one converter without the need to install it
on a client pc. And the best of all:
ODFTrans is free
HWD developed ODFTrans as a central service to convert
proprietary office files into the open document format (ODF) and vice versa.
ODFTRANS is based on eMail2PDF, HWD´s well-known, email-based PDF
conversion. Clients send their documents to ODFTrans by email and
ODFTrans swiftly replies with the converted document(s) attached:
easy to understand and efficient to use.
In its current version 0.7.2, ODFTrans is no longer
limited to the conversion of documents, but supports the conversion of
spreadsheets and presentations as well.
RTF has been added to the list of
supported file types.
Who benefits from ODFTrans?
ODFTrans can be interesting for all CIOs, administrators and
others, resonsible for IT, who
- are looking for an easy-to-use conversion
software
- can´t or don´t want to install the conversion software on each
client pc
- give Linux-Users the possibility to make use of MS-Office
based converters
- minimize support for conversion tasks
Authorities, organisations and companies can request further information by
eMail oder telephone.
