Aspose.Words

Save in the OpenDocument Text (.ODT, .OTT) Format

Save in the OpenDocument Text Format Overview

Aspose.Words saves documents in ODT, OTT format according to the OASIS ODF 1.1 standard. The following table provides implementation details.

Document

Not all Microsoft Word features can be exported to OpenDocument format. When a feature is unsupported in ODT Aspose.Words attempts to export the feature as close as possible using the available features of OpenDocument.

There is a save option which allows you to specify that Aspose.Word should export a document to ODT while strictly following the ODT 1.1 specification.

Note that there may appear to be more styles in the output ODT document than in the original input document. This is expected as all formatting in the ODT format is style based, therefore more styles must be created during export to deal with direct formatting on runs and paragraphs (that are not applied using a style).

See the following links in the documentation for further information:

·         Save a Document

·         OdtSaveOptions

General

Feature

Supported

Comment

See Also

Attached Template

N/A

 

 

Built-In Properties

Yes

Built-in properties such as word and character count are updated using Aspose.Words but are not updated automatically on save.

Instead you need to explictly update these properties using the appropriate Document member. We will add automatic update of these properties in a future version.

Some Microsoft Word document properties that do not have corresponding properties in ODT are not saved to ODT.

·         Document.UpdateWordCount

Custom Properties

Yes

 

 

Custom Payload Part

N/A

 

 

Custom XML Data Storage

N/A

 

 

Digital Signature

Planned

Signing a ODT document with a digital signatures is not yet supported.

Note that an existing signature on a document cannot be retained as by nature the document has been changed during import.

 

Embedded Package

N/A

Exported as a plain image.

 

Encryption

Planned

 

 

Font Table

Yes

 

 

Glossary Document/Quick Parts/Auto Text

N/A

Glossary Document/Building Blocks/AutoText entries are not saved to ODT as there is no native support for this feature in OpenOffice.

 

Hyphenation

Yes

 

 

Key Map Customizations

N/A

 

 

Mail Merge Recipient Data

N/A

 

 

Office Math

Planned

It is planned to export Office Math as an image to formats that do not have native support for it.

 

Themes

Yes

Theme formatting is exported as direct formatting to ODT.

Only some theme formatting such as fonts are supported.

 

Toolbar Customizations

N/A

 

 

Variables

N/A

 

 

VBA Project (Macro)

N/A

Macros are not supported in ODT format.

 

VBA Project Digital Signature

N/A

 

 

Background

N/A

 

 

Thumbnail

N/A

 

 

Embedded Fonts

Feature

Supported

Comment

See Also

Embedding Fonts

N/A

 

 

Embed Only Non-Standard Fonts

N/A

 

 

Bibliography

Feature

Supported

Comment

See Also

Bibliography

Yes

OpenOffice does not support this feature. Bibliography is saved to ODT as plain text.

 

Sources/Citations

Yes

Bibliography sources are not saved to ODT.

 

Citation Style

N/A

 

 

Protection

OpenOffice does not support protection so document protection is lost upon conversion to ODT.

Feature

Supported

Comment

See Also

Allow Only Comments

N/A

 

 

Allow Only Form Fields

N/A

 

 

Allow Only Revisions

N/A

 

 

Limit Formatting to Selection of Styles

N/A

 

 

Protection Password (Legacy)

N/A

 

 

Protection Password (OOXML)

N/A

 

 

Protected Sections

Yes

 

 

Protection Ranges

N/A

 

 

Read Only

N/A

 

 

Settings

Footnote, Endnote and View settings are saved to ODT.

Other settings such as Asian Typography, Mail Merge and Web settings are not saved to ODT.

Feature

Supported

Comment

See Also

Asian Typography Settings

N/A

 

 

Compatibility Options

N/A

Compatibility Options can influence how the document content is appears. These are not retained while converting to ODT.

 

Endnote Options

Yes

 

 

Footnote Options

Yes

 

 

Mail Merge Settings

N/A

 

 

Print Settings

N/A

 

 

Show/Hide Settings

N/A

 

 

View Settings

Yes

 

 

Web Settings

N/A

 

 

XML Settings

N/A

 

 

Paragraphs

General Formatting

Feature

Supported

Comment

See Also

Paragraph Style

Yes

There is an increase in the number of styles after you save the document in ODT format. This is because all formatting in ODF is style based.

 

Alignment

Yes

 

 

Right to Left Paragraph

Yes

 

 

Bullets and Numbers

Yes

 

 

Outline Level

Yes

 

 

Run Properties for the Paragraph Mark

Yes

 

 

Suppress Line Numbers

Yes

 

 

Suppress Hyphenation

Yes

 

 

Indents

Feature

Supported

Comment

See Also

Left Indent

Yes

 

 

Right Indent

Yes

 

 

First Line Indent

Yes

 

 

Hanging Indent

Yes

 

 

Mirror Indents

N/A

Mirror Indents are not supported in ODT.

 

Automatically Adjust Right Indent

N/A

Automatically Adjust Right Indent are not supported in ODT.

 

Spacing

No Space Between Conforming Paragraphs is not supported.

Feature

Supported

Comment

See Also

Space Before

Yes

 

 

Space After

Yes

 

 

Space Auto

Yes

 

 

Line Spacing

Yes

 

 

No Space between Conforming Paragraphs

N/A

 

 

Keeps and Breaks

Feature

Supported

Comment

See Also

Widow/Orphan Control

Yes

 

 

Keep With Next

Yes

 

 

Keep Lines Together

Yes

 

 

Page Break Before

Yes

 

 

Text Frames

Text from text frames is saved to ODT as normal text paragraphs with a border.

Feature

Supported

Comment

See Also

Text Frames

Planned

 

 

Tab Stops

Feature

Supported

Comment

See Also

Absolute Position

Yes

 

 

Relative Position

Planned

Can be simulated by calculating the actual position of the tab stop.

 

Alignment: Left, Center, Right, Decimal, Bar

Yes

 

 

Leader

Yes

 

 

Drop Caps

Feature

Supported

Comment

See Also

Drop Caps

Yes

 

 

Borders

Bar and Between borders, dashed, shadow and triple lines appear differently when saved to ODT because not all border features exist in ODT.

Feature

Supported

Comment

See Also

Border Sides

Yes

 

 

Shadow

N/A

 

 

3D Frame

Yes

 

 

Style

Yes

 

 

Color

Yes

 

 

Width

Yes

 

 

Distance from Text

Yes

 

 

Shading

Feature

Supported

Comment

See Also

Shading

Yes

 

 

Asian Typography

Some Asian Typography settings are not supported in ODT.

Feature

Supported

Comment

See Also

Use Asian Rules for Controlling First and Last Characters

N/A

 

 

Allow Latin Text to Wrap in the Middle of a Word

N/A

 

 

Allow Hanging Punctuation

Yes

 

 

Allow Punctuation at Start of a Line to Compress

N/A

 

 

Automatically Adjust Space between Asian and Latin Text

Yes

 

 

Automatically Adjust Space between Asian Text and Numbers

N/A

 

 

Text Vertical Alignment

N/A

 

 

Text

Text in different languages is fully supported and can be rendered to formats such as PDF and image with high fidelity.

Characters

Feature

Supported

Comment

See Also

Western Languages

Yes

 

 

East European Languages

Yes

 

 

East Asian Languages

Yes

 

 

Right to Left Languages

Yes

 

 

Carriage Return (not a Paragraph Break)

Yes

 

 

Non Breaking Space

Yes

 

 

Non Breaking Hyphen

Yes

 

 

Soft Hyphen

Yes

This type of hyphen is referred to as an "Optional Hyphen" in Microsoft Word documents.

 

Symbol

Yes

 

 

Tab

Yes

 

 

Breaks

Feature

Supported

Comment

See Also

Line Break

Yes

 

 

Line Break Clear Type

Yes

 

 

Page Break

Yes

 

 

Column Break

Yes

 

 

General Formatting

Feature

Supported

Comment

See Also

Character Style

Yes

There is an increase in the number of styles after you save the document in ODT format. This is because all formatting in ODF is style based.

 

Color

Yes

 

 

East Asian Typography

N/A

 

 

Highlight Color

Yes

Highlight color is exported to character background color on export.

 

Language

Yes

 

 

Do not Check Spelling or Grammar

N/A

 

 

Border

N/A

 

 

Shading

Yes

Textured fills are saved as solid fills to ODT.

 

Font

Feature

Supported

Comment

See Also

Font

Yes

 

 

Underline

Some underline types appear different when saved to ODT.

Feature

Supported

Comment

See Also

Underline Type

Yes

 

 

Underline Color

Yes

 

 

Text Effects

Feature

Supported

Comment

See Also

Animated Effect

Yes

 

 

Double Strikethrough

Yes

 

 

Strikethrough

Yes

 

 

Subscript/Superscript

Yes

 

 

Shadow

Yes

 

 

Outline

Yes

 

 

Emboss

Yes

 

 

Imprint (Engrave)

Yes

 

 

Small Caps

Yes

 

 

All Caps

Yes

 

 

Hidden Text

Yes

ODT also provides an extra type of "hidden" text through the conditonal text feature. This is a kind of like an IF field in a Word document.

Currently this special feature is unsupported in ODT import and export.

 

Special Hidden

N/A

 

 

Web Hidden

N/A

 

 

Character Spacing

Kerning and Snap to Grid are not saved to ODT.

Feature

Supported

Comment

See Also

Scale

Yes

 

 

Expanded/Compressed

Yes

 

 

Vertical Position

Yes

 

 

Tables

Table

Feature

Supported

Comment

See Also

Nested Tables

Yes

 

 

Right To Left Tables

Yes

 

 

Table Style

Yes

When a table style is present, it is converted to direct formatting on save so all formatting is still preserved.

 

Conditional Formatting Style

Yes

 

 

Table Alignment

Yes

 

 

Table Indent

Yes

 

 

Allow AutoFit

Yes

 

 

Default Cell Margins

Yes

 

 

Default Cell Spacing

N/A

 

 

Preferred Table Width

Yes

 

 

Table Shading

Yes

 

 

Hidden

Planned

Hidden table or row is currently exported as as collapsed with no content. This can produce the correct output with the exception of a row border present.

 

Floating Tables

Floating tables are saved as normal tables.

Feature

Supported

Comment

See Also

Horizontal Position

Planned

 

 

Horizontal Position Relative To

Planned

 

 

Vertical Position

Planned

 

 

Vertical Position Relative To

Planned

 

 

Distance from Text

Planned

 

 

Move with Text

Planned

 

 

Allow Overlap Floating Tables

Planned

 

 

Table Borders

Feature

Supported

Comment

See Also

Table Borders

Yes

 

 

Rows

Feature

Supported

Comment

See Also

Allow Break Across Pages

Yes

 

 

Repeat as Header Row

Yes

 

 

Height

Yes

 

 

Height Rule

Yes

 

 

Cells

Feature

Supported

Comment

See Also

Cell Margins

Yes

 

 

Borders

Yes

Diagonal borders are not saved to ODT.

Dashed, shadow and triple lines appear differently when saved to ODT.

 

Shading

Yes

Textured fills are saved as solid fills to ODT.

 

Wrap Text

Yes

 

 

Fit Text

Yes

 

 

Preferred Width

Yes

 

 

Merged Horizontally

Yes

 

 

Merged Vertically

Yes

 

 

Vertical Alignment

Yes

 

 

Text Direction

Yes

 

 

Custom Markup

When converting to a document format that doesn't support custom markup features, the markup is stripped but content is preserved. The non-Microsoft Word document formats do not support custom markup and only text is exported.

CustomXML

Feature

Supported

Comment

See Also

CustomXML

N/A

 

 

Content Controls (Structured Document Tags)

ODT format does not support content controls. During conversion only the plain content is retained.

Feature

Supported

Comment

See Also

Content Controls (Structured Document Tags)

N/A

 

 

Smart Tags

Feature

Supported

Comment

See Also

Smart Tag Properties

N/A

 

 

Sections

Headers and Footers

Headers and footers may appear differently when a document is saved to ODT and opened in OpenOffice. This is because content is not greyed out like apparence in Microsoft Word.

Feature

Supported

Comment

See Also

Different First Page

Yes

 

 

Different Even and Odd Pages

Yes

 

 

Continue from Previous Section

Yes

 

 

Section Break Type

Some section properties (e.g. top margin, bottom margin) for continuous section breaks are not saved to ODT.

See the following links in the documentation for further information:

·         Section.SectionStart

·         DocumentBuilder.InsertBreak

Feature

Supported

Comment

See Also

Continuous

Yes

 

 

Even Page

Yes

 

 

Odd Page

Yes

 

 

Next Column

Yes

 

 

Next Page

Yes

 

 

Text Columns

Feature

Supported

Comment

See Also

Text Columns

Yes

 

 

Page Margins

Gutter settings are not saved to ODT.

Feature

Supported

Comment

See Also

Page Margins

Yes

 

 

Page Numbering

Feature

Supported

Comment

See Also

Number Format

Planned

Exported as arabic numbering.

 

Starting Number

Yes

 

 

General Formatting

Feature

Supported

Comment

See Also

Right to Left Section

Planned

 

 

Line Numbering

Yes

 

 

Paper Source

Yes

 

·         PageSetup.FirstPageTray

·         PageSetup.OtherPageTray

Paper Size

Yes

 

 

Orientation

Yes

 

 

Protection

N/A

 

 

Text Direction

N/A

 

 

Vertical Alignment

N/A

 

 

Asian Document Grid

N/A

 

 

Chapter Numbering

Feature

Supported

Comment

See Also

Chapter Numbering

N/A

 

 

Page Border

Page border positioning options and Border Art are not saved to ODT.

Feature

Supported

Comment

See Also

Page Border

Yes

 

 

Styles

Note that there may appear to be more styles in the output ODT document than in the original input document. This is expected as all formatting in the ODT format is style based, therefore more styles must be created during export to deal with direct formatting on runs and paragraphs (that are not applied using a style).

Style Type

Note that there may appear to be more styles in the output ODT document than in the original input document. This is expected as all formatting in the ODT format is style based, therefore more styles must be created during export to deal with direct formatting on runs and paragraphs (that are not applied using a style).

Feature

Supported

Comment

See Also

Paragraph Style

Yes

 

 

Character Style

Yes

 

 

List Style

Yes

 

 

Table Style

N/A

 

 

General

Feature

Supported

Comment

See Also

Aliases

N/A

 

 

Based On

Yes

 

 

Built-in Styles

Yes

 

 

Custom Styles

Yes

 

 

Style Name

Yes

 

 

Next Style

Yes

 

 

Paragraph Properties

Yes

 

 

Run Properties

Yes

 

 

Bullets and Numbering

Yes

 

 

Document Defaults

Feature

Supported

Comment

See Also

Paragraph Properties

N/A

 

 

Run Properties

N/A

 

 

Table Style

Feature

Supported

Comment

See Also

Apply Formatting to

N/A

 

 

Table Properties

N/A

 

 

Banding

N/A

 

 

Paragraph Properties

N/A

 

 

Run Properties

N/A

 

 

Numbering

Numbering Definition

Feature

Supported

Comment

See Also

Single Level

Yes

 

 

Multi Level

Yes

 

 

Name

N/A

 

 

Numbering Level

Feature

Supported

Comment

See Also

Label Alignment

Yes

 

 

Picture Bullet

Planned

 

 

Restart Level

N/A

 

 

Bullet Character

Yes

 

 

Label/Format String

Yes

 

 

Number Format

Yes

Some number formats are converted to Arabic when saved to ODT.

 

Paragraph Properties

Yes

 

 

Font Properties

Yes

 

 

Linked Paragraph Style

N/A

 

 

Starting Value

Yes

 

 

Text After

Yes

 

 

Footnotes/Endnotes

Footnotes

Feature

Supported

Comment

See Also

Reference Mark

Yes

 

 

Custom Reference Mark

N/A

 

 

Custom Separator

N/A

 

 

Continuation Separator Mark

N/A

 

 

Document Wide Properties

Yes

 

 

Section Wide Properties

N/A

 

 

Number Format

Yes

 

 

Restart Location

N/A

 

 

Starting Value

Yes

 

 

Placement

Yes

 

 

Endnotes

Feature

Supported

Comment

See Also

Reference Mark

Yes

 

 

Custom Reference Mark

N/A

 

 

Custom Separator

N/A

 

 

Continuation Separator Mark

N/A

 

 

Document Wide Properties

Yes

 

 

Section Wide Properties

N/A

 

 

Number Format

Yes

 

 

Restart Location

N/A

 

 

Starting Value

Yes

 

 

Placement

Yes

 

 

Annotations

Bookmarks

All Word documents and most other formats that Aspose.Words export to only allow bookmarks with unqiue names, that is, no two bookmarks are allowed the exact same name.

If two bookmarks are given the same name in the model then no errors will occur. During export to any format the duplicate bookmarks are removed silently. The first bookmark visited in the model is the one that is retained, any other bookmarks are removed,

Feature

Supported

Comment

See Also

Bookmark Start

Yes

 

 

Bookmark End

Yes

 

 

Bookmark Name

Yes

 

 

Bookmark Table Columns

N/A

 

 

Comments

Comments associated with a group of words become associated with a single point at the beginning of the group of words when saved to ODT.

Tables in comments are not saved to ODT. These are limitations of the ODT format.

Feature

Supported

Comment

See Also

Comment

Yes

 

 

Comment Range

N/A

 

 

Author

Yes

 

 

Date

Yes

 

 

Initial

N/A

 

 

Tracking Changes

OpenOffice does not support tracked changes.

You can choose to either accept changes in Aspose.Words before saving to ODT or save without accepting.

Feature

Supported

Comment

See Also

On/Off State

N/A

 

 

Table Cell Deletion

N/A

 

 

Table Cell Insertion

N/A

 

 

Cell Merge or Split

N/A

 

 

Run Deletion

N/A

 

 

Run Insertion

N/A

 

 

Paragraph Deletion

N/A

 

 

Paragraph Insertion

N/A

 

 

Table Row Deletion

N/A

 

 

Table Row Insertion

N/A

 

 

Numbering Insertion

N/A

 

 

Numbering Change

N/A

 

 

Moves

N/A

 

 

Paragraph Properties Change

N/A

 

 

Run Properties Change

N/A

 

 

Section Properties Change

N/A

 

 

Table Properties Change

N/A

 

 

Cell Properties Change

N/A

 

 

Row Properties Change

N/A

 

 

RSIDs Session Identifiers

N/A

 

 

Fields

Fields are supported in the model. To check if these fields can be updated check the import section.

Even if a field can be updated, most fields are exported if they are up-to-date by MS Word. i.e if you import a doucment and export it with a field as it is then it will appear properly in the output format.

Fields with custom field codes (a field code modified to represent something different than a normal field) are retained as they are when converting to other Word document formats. These fields are lost when exporting to ODT.

When saving to rendered formats such as PDF, XPS or image some fields may be automatically updated as a part of page layout.

Fields that do not exist in ODT are converted to plain text when saved to ODT, others are exported as working fields.

Field Codes

Fields that do not exist in ODT are converted to plain text when saved to ODT, others are exported as working fields.

See the following link in the documentation for further information:

·         Document.UpdateFields.

Feature

Supported

Comment

See Also

Field Codes

Yes

 

 

Date and Time

Feature

Supported

Comment

See Also

CreateDate

Yes

 

 

Date

Yes

 

 

EditTime

Yes

 

 

PrintDate

Yes

 

 

SaveDate

Yes

 

 

Time

Yes

 

 

Document Automation

Feature

Supported

Comment

See Also

Compare

Yes

 

 

DocVariable

Yes

Exported as plain text.

 

GoToButton

N/A

 

 

If

N/A

 

 

MacroButton

N/A

 

 

Print

N/A

 

 

Document Information

Fields such as FileName or FileSize are not automatically updated on save. However they can be updated explictly by calling Document.UpdateFields.

Feature

Supported

Comment

See Also

Author

Yes

 

 

Comments

Yes

 

 

DocProperty

Yes

 

 

FileName

Yes

 

 

FileSize

Yes

 

 

Info

Yes

 

 

Keywords

Yes

 

 

LastSavedBy

Yes

 

 

NumChars

Yes

 

 

NumPages

Yes

 

 

NumWords

Yes

 

 

Subject

Yes

 

 

Template

Yes

 

 

Title

Yes

 

 

Equations and Formulas

Feature

Supported

Comment

See Also

Formula

Yes

 

 

Advance

Planned

Planned to be exported as plain text separator.

 

Eq

Yes

Exported as image.

 

Symbol

Yes

 

 

Form Fields

Not all form field features are have appropriate analogs in ODT format.

Feature

Supported

Comment

See Also

TextInput

Yes

 

 

CheckBox

Yes

 

 

DropDown

Yes

 

 

Calc On Exit

N/A

 

 

Checked

Yes

 

 

Default Value

Yes

 

 

Enabled

N/A

 

 

Entry and Exit Macro

Yes

 

 

Name

Yes

 

 

Help Text

N/A

Pop up text is not supported in OpenOffice, however the form field name (taken from the bookmark) appears in a tool tip when hovered over.

This can be used to provide extra information.

 

Status Text

N/A

Pop up text is not supported in OpenOffice, however the form field name (taken from the bookmark) appears in a tool tip when hovered over.

This can be used to provide extra information.

 

Max Length

N/A

 

 

Check Box Size

N/A

 

 

Text Input Type

N/A

 

 

Index and Tables

Feature

Supported

Comment

See Also

Index

Yes

 

 

RD

N/A

 

 

TA

N/A

 

 

TC

N/A

 

 

TOA (Table of Authorities)

N/A

 

 

TOC (Table of Contents)

Yes

 

 

XE

N/A

 

 

Links and References

Feature

Supported

Comment

See Also

AutoText

Yes

Only the plain text content of the AutoText is supported.

 

AutoTextList

N/A

 

 

Bibliography

N/A

 

 

Citation

N/A

 

 

Hyperlink

Yes

 

 

IncludePicture

Yes

Both options for embedding the image and external link only are supported.

 

IncludeText

Yes

 

 

Link

Planned

It is planned to export this as an image.

 

NoteRef

Yes

Exported as plain text.

 

PageRef

Yes

Exported as plain text.

 

Quote

Yes

Exported as plain text.

 

Ref

Yes

 

 

StyleRef

Yes

Exported as plain text.

 

Mail Merge

Some fields cannot be exported to ODT. They are converted to plain text.

Feature

Supported

Comment

See Also

AddressBlock

N/A

 

 

Ask

N/A

 

 

Compare

Yes

 

 

Database

N/A

 

 

Fill-in

N/A

 

 

GreetingLine

N/A

 

 

If

N/A

 

 

MergeField

Yes

 

 

MergeRec

N/A

 

 

MergeSeq

N/A

 

 

Next

N/A

 

 

NextIf

N/A

 

 

Set

N/A

 

 

SkipIf

N/A

 

 

Numbering

Feature

Supported

Comment

See Also

AutoNum

Planned

 

 

AutoNumLgl

Planned

 

 

AutoNumOut

Planned

 

 

BarCode

Planned

Note that this only refers to the BarCode field structure. Commonly barcodes are actually represented in Microsoft Word document as text using a special barcode font or image. These are fully supported during export to all formats.

 

ListNum

Planned

 

 

Page

Yes

 

 

RevNum

Yes

 

 

Section

Yes

 

 

SectionPages

Yes

 

 

Seq

Yes

Converted to plain text. Note this can affect the behaviour of some TOCs.

 

User Information

These fields are all exported as plain text.

Feature

Supported

Comment

See Also

UserAddress

Yes

 

 

UserInitials

Yes

 

 

UserName

Yes

 

 

Hyperlinks

Feature

Supported

Comment

See Also

Text

Yes

 

 

Hyperlinked Shape or Image

Yes

In ODT format a hyperlink can only be applied to an image and not a shape.

 

Hyperlink across Multiple Paragraphs

Yes

Exported as fomatted text as ODT does not allow hyperlinks consisting of mulitple paragraphs.

 

Hyperlink to a Local Bookmark

Yes

 

 

Hyperlink to an External Resource

Yes

 

 

Screen Tip

N/A

 

 

Target Frame

Yes

 

 

Formatting Switches

Feature

Supported

Comment

See Also

Date and Time Formatting

Yes

 

 

Numbering Formatting

Yes

 

 

General Formatting

Yes

 

 

Drawing Objects

Images

All images are exported as the same format that they were originally loaded as.

Feature

Supported

Comment

See Also

PNG

Yes

 

 

JPG

Yes

 

 

WMF

Yes

 

 

EMF

Yes

 

 

EMF+

Yes

 

 

BMP

Yes

 

 

GIF

Yes

 

 

TIFF

Yes

 

 

Borders

Yes

Borders might appear differently when saved to ODT.

 

Cropping

Yes

Rectangular cropping is supported only.

 

Alternative text

Planned

 

 

Image Recoloring

Feature

Supported

Comment

See Also

Brightness

Yes

 

 

Contrast

Yes

 

 

Recolor

Planned

Image is currently exported without any recoloring applied.

 

Textboxes

Feature

Supported

Comment

See Also

Text Direction

Planned

 

 

Linked Textboxes

Planned

 

 

Internal Margins

Planned

 

 

Vertical Alignment

N/A

 

 

Resize To Fit Text

Planned

 

 

Text in Other Shapes

Yes

 

 

OLE Objects

OLE Objects represent embedded content in a Microsoft Word document, such as an embedded Excel or Powerpoint document. The OLE object is dynamic and can be edited or updated through Microsoft Word.

OLE objects are fully preserved when converting within different Word document formats.

OLE objects are saved as images.

Feature

Supported

Comment

See Also

Linked

N/A

 

 

Embedded

N/A

 

 

Draw Aspect

N/A

 

 

Auto Update

N/A

 

 

Lock

N/A

 

 

Ole Object Data

N/A

 

 

Ole Object Picture

Yes

 

 

Source Range

N/A

 

 

ActiveX Controls

Output as an image.

Feature

Supported

Comment

See Also

Persistent Properties Storage

N/A

 

 

Shapes

Feature

Supported

Comment

See Also

Lines

Yes

 

 

Basic Shapes

Yes

 

 

Block Arrows

Yes

 

 

Flowcharts

Yes

 

 

Callouts

Yes

 

 

Stars and Banners

Yes

 

 

Group Shape

Yes

All grouped shapes are exported as one image.

 

Drawing Canvas

Yes

 

 

Signature Line

N/A

ODT does not have any signature line feature. A signature line is exported as a regular image.

 

Ink Annotation

Yes

Ink Annotations are exported to all formats as regular images.

 

Clip Art

Yes

 

 

Diagrams (VML)

Yes

VML graphic format is normally used in pre-OOXML formats such as DOC or RTF.

 

SmartArt (VML)

Yes

 

 

Charts (VML)

Yes

 

 

Shape Customizations

Yes

Exported as image.

 

Hyperlink on Shape

N/A

 

 

Watermark

N/A

Watermark image is exported as is into the document body as OpenOffice has no support for background watermarks. It is suggested to make sure that the wrapping on the watermark is set to "Behind Text" to aovid the image appearing in front of text.

Also note that the image will not have the same transparency level as what is applied in Microsoft Word.

 

DrawingML

DrawingML is only preserved in round-trip back to DOCX format.

There are plans to export DrawingML as regular shape/image to other formats. At the moment DrawingML objects are lost when converting to other formats.

Support for DrawingML is improving with every new release.

Feature

Supported

Comment

See Also

Images/Shapes

Yes

Simple DrawingML images are converted to regular images upon export to non-OOXML formats.

 

Diagrams

Planned

 

 

SmartArt

Planned

 

 

Charts

Planned

 

 

WordArt

Exported to ODT as a custom shape element.

Feature

Supported

Comment

See Also

Styles

Yes

 

 

Outline

Yes

 

 

Fill

Yes

 

 

3D Properties

Yes

 

 

Text Spacing

Planned

 

 

Vertical Text

N/A

 

 

Even Height

Planned

 

 

Align and Justify Text

Planned

 

 

WordArt Shape

Yes

 

 

Horizontal Line Object

Exported as an image.

Some formatting might appear differently when saved to ODT.

Feature

Supported

Comment

See Also

Width

Yes

 

 

Height

Yes

 

 

Color

Yes

 

 

Alignment

Planned

 

 

Hyperlink

N/A

 

 

Image

N/A

Exported as a regular image.

 

Position

Feature

Supported

Comment

See Also

Inline

Yes

Shape is exported "As Character". Surrounding text for inline objects appears lined up along the top edge (instead of bottom edge) of the shape.

This is a feature of OpenOffice, if the output ODT document is opened in Microsoft Word then the text alignment appears correctly.

 

Floating

Yes

Some position and alignment options might appear different when saved to ODT.

 

Wrap Type

Yes

Text wrapping around images and shapes is supported in all formats.

Nearly all wrap types have eqivilant analogs in ODT which look some what similar.

·          Square, Tight and In Front of Text wrapping are exported as "Parallel". ODT contains no direct analog of Infront of Text which is why this feature is exported as Parallel.

·          Behind Text and Through wrapping is exported as "In Background".

·          Top and Bottom wrapping is exported as No Wrap.

 

Wrap Sides

Yes

ODT contains direct analogs of these features.

·          Both sides are exported as "Parellel" wrap where applicable.

·          Left Only exported as "Before".

·          Right Only exported  as "After".

·          Largest Only exported as "Optimal".

 

Distance from Text

Yes

 

 

Z-Order

Yes

 

 

Polygon Wrap Points

N/A

 

 

Rotation

N/A

 

 

Flip

Yes

 

 

Horizontal Alignment

Yes

 

 

Horizontal Position Relative To

Yes

 

 

Vertical Alignment

Yes

 

 

Vertical Position Relative To

Yes

 

 

Anchor Lock

N/A

 

 

Allow Overlap

N/A

 

 

Layout in Table Cell

N/A

 

 

Size

Feature

Supported

Comment

See Also

Width and Height

Yes

 

 

Scale

Yes

A scaled object is normally exported with scaling applied to the Shape size and the Scale property reset to 100%.

Exported as explict size.

 

Relative Size

Yes

Exported as explict size.

 

Lock Aspect Ratio

Planned

 

 

Fill

Feature

Supported

Comment

See Also

No Fill

Yes

 

 

Solid Fill

Yes

 

 

Gradient Fill

Yes

 

 

Pattern Fill

Planned

 

 

Picture or Texture Fill

Planned

 

 

Line Style

Some line styles might appear different when saved to ODT.

Feature

Supported

Comment

See Also

Line Color

Yes

 

 

Line Fill

N/A

 

 

Line Width

Yes

 

 

Compound Type

N/A

 

 

Dash Type

Yes

 

 

Cap Type

N/A

 

 

Join Type

Yes

 

 

Arrow Settings

Yes

Some arrow types might appear differently when saved to ODT.

 

Shadow

Shadows are exported well to ODT but in a simplified way to accommodate the ODT format.

Feature

Supported

Comment

See Also

Shadow

Planned

 

 

3D Properties

ODT doesn't support 3D features.

In a future version shapes with 3D formatting may be exported as image.

Feature

Supported

Comment

See Also

3D Properties

N/A