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List:       koffice
Subject:    Re: KOffice issues [Re: Question about your KPresenter's review]
From:       Catherine Olanich Raymond <cathy () thyrsus ! com>
Date:       2002-03-10 6:35:12
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On Friday 08 March 2002 05:40 am, Vadim Plessky wrote:
> On Wednesday 06 March 2002 12:34, Werner Trobin wrote:
> |   On Wednesday 06 March 2002 07:23, Catherine Olanich Raymond wrote:

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> |   > 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.

It does sound good.  Of course, the more of the process can be done 
automagically, without the user having to enter additional commands, the 
happier the user (usually) will be.  :-)



-- 
Cathy Raymond <cathy@thyrsus.com>

"The meeting of personalities is like the contact of chemical substances; 
if there is any reaction, both are transformed."  Carl Jung
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