OpenOffice and Atlantis

janniklindquist · Post by **janniklindquist** » Tue Feb 02, 2010 6:31 am

Hello,

Thank you again for enabling Atlantis to import files in the odt-format. I am wondering, though, why Atlantis always shows more styles in an imported document (in the styles overview) than what can be seen in OpenOffice (applied styles). The same thing happens when an RTF-file created in Atlantis is edited in OpenOffice: when it is opened again in Atlantis, more styles are present - and once again it is styles that can only be seen in Atlantis.

Is this because Atlantis gives a more accurate view of what is actually in the file (are the extra styles actually there)?

Post by **admin** » Tue Feb 02, 2010 7:06 am

Could you please send a test ODT document to support@AtlantisWordProcessor.com, or attach to your post?

janniklindquist · Post by **janniklindquist** » Tue Feb 02, 2010 8:55 am

Attached is a very simple odt-file. According to OpenOffice 3.2 it only contains one style ("Standard"). According to Atlantis it contains seven styles

Post by **admin** » Tue Feb 02, 2010 9:40 am

Thanks for the document file. Its stylesheet does contain 7 paragraph styles.

Note that OpenOffice has different style "filters". OpenOffice can display "automatic style", "custom styles", "applied styles", etc through its GUI. Atlantis always displays all the styles available in the corresponding table (stylesheet) of the document.

janniklindquist · Post by **janniklindquist** » Tue Feb 02, 2010 9:52 am

Thank you. The strange thing is that editing a RTF-file (created in Atlantis) in OpenOffice will add more styles to the stylesheet of the document. I guess that this just reflects how the standard stylesheet for RTF-documents is composed in OpenOffice.

Post by **admin** » Tue Feb 02, 2010 10:04 am

The standards do not say which styles should be present within the style tables of RTFs and ODTs. Different word processor deal with document styles quite differently.

janniklindquist · Post by **janniklindquist** » Tue Feb 02, 2010 10:08 am

Yes, obviously. Probably, not even a universally accepted open standard for documents could change that

janniklindquist · Post by **janniklindquist** » Wed Feb 03, 2010 8:21 am

Speaking of ODT: You might want to consider having Atlantis added to the list of applications supporting the OpenDocument format:

http://opendocumentfellowship.com/applications#search

Post by **admin** » Wed Feb 03, 2010 9:27 am

Yes, I am aware of this OpenDocument Fellowship. It is mentioned in the Wikipedia's article on OpenDocument. We will certainly submit information about Atlantis to the OpenDocument Fellowship. Thanks.