Tmax Office: Connect the Office

Worldwide Market For Office

• [Graph] (Source: Gartner, May 2007)
  • MS Office (98.3%)
  • Others

Can You Open This [File]?

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Changes In Document Format

• From proprietary format, to open standard
• Document format history
  • 2005: ODF became OASIS standard
  • 2006: ODF became ISO[/IEC] 26300 standard
  • 2007: ODF became Korean standard [As KS X ISO/IEC 26300]
  • 2008: MS Office binary file format goes public
  • 2008: OOXML became ISO/IEC DIS 29500 standard

The Reality Of Document Compatibility

• There exists open standard, but what about compatibility?

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Compatibility Of Tmax Office

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Infrastructure Of Tmax Office

• [Documents:] OOXML document (MS Office 2007), MS Binary document (MS Office 97–2003), ODF document (OpenOffice[.org])
• [Filters:] OOXML import/export, MS Binary import/export, ODF import/export
• Document model for word processor, spreadsheet and presentation
• [Monitor and keyboard, meaning rendering engine and user interaction]
• [Supports:] i18n, drawing layer, GUI, framework, utilities, UNO, GSL, UCB, config[uration] m[an]g[e]r

Implementing Compatibility

• OpenOffice document model is specialized at ODF, so cannot made fully compatible to OOXML and MS Office 97–2003 file format
• Amount of document specification: OOXML at 5500 pages, MS binary at 5000 pages, ODF at 700 pages

• Replacement and addition of models and filter services

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Challenges Of Implementing Compatibility

• There are cases that some document features are present in one format but not in another

• There are cases that some document features are present but has differences in detail
  • Can adjust the individual shape [of combined shape]?
  • Can apply the style to individual lines?
  • Can adjust the text to fit in the shape automatically?

Implementing Document Filter

• Document input and output based on the intention of user
  • Handles missing features between document formats
  • Handles slight differences between document formats

• Existence of undocumented features
• Tested every combination for this
  • [Example:] GUID-based table style

Compatibility Of User Experience

• Friendly UI
  • Minimizing feeling of foreignness and learning curve
• Compatibility of features
  • Aiming at one-to-one correspondence of features
• Performance improvement
  • Structure appropriate for multi-core processors
  • Improvements on huge documents
  • Improvements on multiple documents

Extensibility Of Tmax Office

• Platform via Tmax Office API
  • APIs for ODF support
  • Filter APIs for OOXML and MS binary model
  • Unique APIs for Tmax Office
• Connection to TmaxSoft’s enterprise products
  • ProCMS
  • ProPortal

Tmax Office

• File compatibility, compatibility of user experiences, technical support
  • Dissolution of office [suite] monopoly via file compatibility
  • Conforms to document format standards
  • No OS dependency due to office suites

Thank You!