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List:       koffice
Subject:    Re: KOffice issues [Re: Question about your KPresenter's review]
From:       Vadim Plessky <lucy-ples () mtu-net ! ru>
Date:       2002-03-08 10:40:40
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On Wednesday 06 March 2002 12:34, Werner Trobin wrote:
|   On Wednesday 06 March 2002 07:23, Catherine Olanich Raymond wrote:
|   > On Tuesday 05 March 2002 07:10 pm, Rob Landley wrote:
|   ::
|   ::snip::
|   >
|   > What Vadim actually said was:
|   >
|   > 	It would be nice too if StarOffice/OO separated import/export
|   > operations from the main package.
|   > 	Than I guess you can use folowing sequence:
|   > 	* import MS Word doc to OO
|   > 	* save in XML/OO format
|   > 	* convert from XML/OO to XML/KOffice
|   >
|   > 	Than you even won't have to open StarOffice/OO, you can edit docs
|   > using KOffice!

Indeed, that's what I was saying. :-)
|   >
|   > This doesn't sound like pillaging the OO code to get a workable KWord
|   > conversion filter to me.  It sounds like a (slightly more) cumbersome
|   > workaround of the type I use now with StarOffice, which can be
|   > described like this:
|   >
|   > 	*Import MS Word doc. to StarOffice
|   > 	* Save in StarOffice using MS Word format
|   > 	*  Reimport saved document to MS Word
|
|   FYI: This is exactly what I'm planning to do. The new filter architecture
|   already supports it (minus bugs ;), but we're lacking the OO/SO
| import/export filters. OpenOffice allows a kind of batch mode file
| conversion.

COOL!  That't the only I can say here.
Indeed, it's a work-around solution, requiring two-stage process.
But as modern computers have 500Mhz-1Ghz CPUs, I doubt you will see 
significant delay here.
So, transition process will be smooth for the user.

|
|   Native filters would -- of course -- be better, but the two-stage
| conversion should be better than none at all.
|
|   Ciao,
|   Werner

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