The Open Document Format continues to gain ground with governments as the format in which they wish to create important documents...Germany and Uruguay [have] joined 14 other national and eight regional governments in requiring ODF as the format for government documents...

The guidelines are the latest step towards Microsoft's planned implementation of the OASIS ODF 1.1 standard in Office 2007 Service Pack 2 (SP2), which is scheduled for release in the first half of 2009. Microsoft announced that Office 2007 would support ODF, as well as Adobe's PDF, in May. The next version of Office, code-named 'Office 14', is also intended to support ODF.

The Federal Government of Germany [has decided] to implement use of the OpenDocument Format (ODF). According to the plan, German federal agencies will be able to receive, read, send and edit ODF documents beginning no later than 2010. State Secretary Dr.

The demo site shows on the fly rendering of open document format charts using the open source ODFChartBuilder and JFreeChart APIs and allows visitors to upload and test their own ODF files.

Access the Chart Builder microsite.