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Doesnt Office export to .odt too? Was any IT savy person involved in this?
It does export to odt, but it still messes up document formatting. Of course this is a solvable issue from a technical perspective, but it's still a lot of man hours to do so for every single document and template across an entire government.
The format isn't the problem; the rules for rendering content outside the PDF are more suggestions.
And honestly, even if the rules were adhered to, there's no way in F that Microsoft would comply just for this very reason
Microsoft’s format is “open” but they don’t follow their own standard so it’s effectively proprietary. I’d be surprised if the odt export even works.