From koffice  Tue Apr 23 21:22:06 2002
From: Nicolas Goutte <nicog () snafu ! de>
Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2002 21:22:06 +0000
To: koffice
Subject: Re: kword exporting
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On Sunday 21 April 2002 21:17, Vadim Plessky wrote:
> On Saturday 06 April 2002 23:49, Nicolas Goutte wrote:
> |  On Saturday 06 April 2002 18:05, olivier.gaeumann@gmx.ch wrote:
> |  > hello,
> |  > i have written a kword document containing text and png-figures, with
> |  > the idea to
> |  > publish it on the internet.
> |  >
> |  > now i have a problem: i  can't export this formatted document to any
> |  > other form
> |  > than a .kwd-file. all other forms are buggy. save as "latex" crashes,
> |  > save as
> |  > "html" ignores my framing and pictures, save as "rtf" the same, and
> |  > print
> |
> |  For the HTML and RTF export filters, it is unfortunately normal.
> |
> |  The HTML filter can export images only in the developer version (CVS
> | HEAD.)
> |
> |  The RTF filter is not missing much for images but the support is not
> |  activated. As the RTF export filter is not actively maintained, this is
> | not going to change soon.
> |
> |  As for frames, I think that no export filters can do it (I am not sure
> | about Latex.)
>
> I hope you mean that "frame support for HTML export filter" will be
> implemented later?..

What I have written is the current status (including KOffice 1.2 Beta 1)

As I have not much time for programming in the moment, I do not know what I 
will or will not be able to do until this mid-summer.

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As for the technical problems for exporting frames to HTML, I have still not 
found a solution since KDE Bug#27135.

Fixing height and width of the frame/box does not help much if it is at the 
end of the text.

However, in KWord's file format, first there is the main text, then all other 
frames. I have to position the frames somehow, as for floating I would need a 
reference point in the main text.

And absolute positioning (with CSS)  is not possible, as the main text would 
not float beside it (but KWord can do it.)

If someone have a good idea how to do it, I would like to hear this idea.

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For all those reasons, I do not think that the HTML export filter will 
correctly exported frames to HTML in KOffice 1.2 final.

Have a nice day/evening/night!