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Subject:    Re: support for other Apple iWorks documents (Pages, ...)?
From:       Jaroslaw Staniek <staniek () kde ! org>
Date:       2019-02-01 11:01:08
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I doubt it due to scope of the challenge. It's not matter of just plugging
the lib into Calligra filters.
I would assume all major suites support standards already (OpenDocument
Format) as a common base. Even MS have admitted that MSOOXML is not such a
base (even) for their tech [1], to me it was more like a smoke and mirrors
+ NIH. Sending ODF files to users of MSO is no longer a blocker, why it
would be different with Apple users?
If the matter is desktop publishing/specific features present only in
iWorks then there's no way to have wide support for that, by definition
such things are application-specific.

[1]
https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/5yvntm/former_head_of_microsoft_office_development_brags/

On Fri, 1 Feb 2019 at 11:34, René J.V. Bertin <rjvbertin@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Has any work been done on using libetonyek to import other Apple iWorks
> documents, notably text documents from Pages? Supposing it's actually
> usable?
>
> Thanks,
> R.
>


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class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace,monospace;font-size:small">I doubt \
it due to scope of the challenge. It&#39;s not matter of just plugging the lib into \
Calligra filters.</div><div class="gmail_default" \
style="font-family:monospace,monospace;font-size:small">I would assume all major \
suites support standards already (OpenDocument Format) as a common base. Even MS have \
admitted that MSOOXML is not such a base (even) for their tech [1], to me it was more \
like a smoke and mirrors + NIH. Sending ODF files to users of MSO is no longer a \
blocker, why it would be different with Apple users?</div><div class="gmail_default" \
style="font-family:monospace,monospace;font-size:small">If the matter is desktop \
publishing/specific features present only in iWorks then there&#39;s no way to have \
wide support for that, by definition such things are application-specific.</div><div \
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style="font-family:monospace,monospace;font-size:small"><br></div><div \
class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace,monospace;font-size:small">[1]  <a \
href="https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/5yvntm/former_head_of_microsoft_office_d \
evelopment_brags/">https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/5yvntm/former_head_of_microsoft_office_development_brags/</a></div></div></div></div><br><div \
class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, 1 Feb 2019 at 11:34, \
René J.V. Bertin &lt;<a href="mailto:rjvbertin@gmail.com" \
target="_blank">rjvbertin@gmail.com</a>&gt; wrote:<br></div><blockquote \
class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid \
rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Hi,<br> <br>
Has any work been done on using libetonyek to import other Apple iWorks documents, \
notably text documents from Pages? Supposing it&#39;s actually usable?<br> <br>
Thanks,<br>
R.<br>
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dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>regards, Jaroslaw \
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