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List:       koffice
Subject:    Re: Just curious about the filters
From:       Vadim Plessky <lucy-ples () mtu-net ! ru>
Date:       2001-10-20 13:20:25
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On Friday 19 October 2001 20:44, Joel Hammer wrote:
|   I am not kidding.
|   If you have to exchange documents, keep using windows. You can install
|   win4lin and windows on top of that. Otherwise, you will spend a lot of
| time messing with reformattting documents. You don't need that.
|   Joel

Can't agree here.
From my experience, Windows users *eat* easily HTML files exported from 
KWord, and PDF files (printed from KWord or any other KDE application)

Yep, I had to answer sometimes questions like "why this document doesn't have 
.doc extension?"
But I guess easy fix for such winodws users is to name files like 
letter.doc.html, the rest is easy - he/she will see ".doc" extension. :-)

Besides, Word 2000 reads KWord-exported HTML *with pleasure*, and save it 
later in somewhat *screwed up* HTML format with "Microsoft Schemas" 
additions, but such format is still readable/usable in KDE.
May be, a good idea can be to have Import filter for KWord which will read 
such MS Word-exported HTML and translate some of extra data MS puts into this 
file, into KWord's native XML.  

|   Fri, Oct 19, 2001 at 12:46:09PM -0700, Kevin Nehls wrote:
|   i
|
|   > Hi there.  I'm just curious if there are plans to use the open source
|   > filters of OpenOffice.org for the filters of KOffice.  I'm currently in
|   > the process of switching my home system over to Linux.  So I'm trying
|   > to find an office suite that is as compatible with MS Office as
|   > possible since I still have to exchange documents on a pretty frequent
|   > basis.
|   >
|   > Thanks,
|   > Kevin

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