I think most if not all of those formats are plaintext? Open a .doc and it’s a heap of garbage XML-like soup.
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Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social 9 months agoWhich is rich considering they reverse-engineered MS Office formats to get their office suite to work
some_designer_dude@lemmy.world 9 months ago
paf0@lemmy.world 9 months ago
It is now but the older formats used to be more like an executable byte code. Efficient but insecure.
filcuk@lemmy.zip 9 months ago
Is that true? I thought the specs were publicly available
Railcar8095@lemm.ee 9 months ago
AFAIK only the “new” formats are (for the basic apps, the ones ending on x). Apple’s office suite is much older than those.