ODT (OpenDocument Text) Export

This section describes the methods and properties related to ODT Export. OpenDocument Text is a free and open document standard, which is published as an ISO/IEC international standard, ISO/IEC 26300:2006 Open Document Format for Office Applications (OpenDocument) v1.0. Published ODF standards meet the common definitions of an open standard, meaning they are freely available and implementable.

ODT files can be imported by Microsoft Office 2003 and later through add-ons.

A VPE Document is exported to the ODT file format by calling the method VpeWriteDoc().

The ODT Document is a zip-File, which includes a group of xml-files and picture files. The following example shows the structure of a in VPE exported ODT Document.

▪ODT

▪META-INF\manifest.xml

▪Pictures\000000000001.png

▪Meta.xml

▪Settings.xml

▪Content.xml

▪Styles.xml

META-INF\manifest.xml

Manifest.xml lists the all files in this archives format again. If this file is missing, this document will not be represented correctly.

Folder “Pictures”

The used images are stored in the folder Pictures as copies.

Meta.xml

The brief information of the ODT Document are saved here. For example, the generator, the create time of this document, etc.

Settings.xml

The document-specific attitudes are saved in settings.xml.

Styles.xml

All used document formats are stored in styles.xml. For example, fonts, line styles, paragraph styles, and page layout, etc.

Content.xml

The file content.xml contains text contents of the document.

Please see this webpage (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenDocument) for more information about the Open Document file format.