From koffice Wed Sep 11 05:49:30 2002 From: Vadim Plessky Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2002 05:49:30 +0000 To: koffice Subject: Re: Announcement: wv2 preview X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=koffice&m=103173072629850 On Tuesday 10 September 2002 2:22 pm, Werner Trobin wrote: | Hi! | | David Faure and I are developing a replacement of the current MS Word | filter in KOffice. The project's name is wv2 (the 2nd version of the | word-view library) and consists of two parts: a document reader library, | which handles the gory parsing of the MS Word documents and feeds a | so-called consumer with the gathered information. This abstraction makes it | possible to use the low-level library in other projects, too. | What will happen with existing Word import filter? I know that Ariya Hidayat was comitting patches to that filter, and those pacthes fixed import of many Word documents for me. On the other hand, does wv2 support *export* of Word documents? | wv2, the low-level library, depends on a working C++ compiler (tested with | gcc-2.95.3, the Mandrake gcc-2.96, gcc 3.1, and gcc-3.2) and libiconv | (should be installed on almost all systems). It would be nice if you can prepare RPM for LM 8.2, installable together with kde3-koffice-1.2-0.rc1.1mdk (or newer releases) it's not the problem if install of such rpm would require --force :-) | Additionally it uses libole2, but if this library is not found on your | system it will use an internal copy (including a stripped down version of | glib). Shortly put -- very light dependencies, so it shouldn't be a major | headache to install wv2. | | The library is also designed to run on various systems, but I only have | access to the sourceforge compile farm, so please give it a try with your | weird compilers and Unices (and report any failures). It should be pretty | portable, but the compiler has to support namespaces and provide a working | STL. | | Currently the filter is able to import section, paragraph and character | properties, tabs, lists, and several other properties from Word 97 and | Word 2000 documents (I didn't test Word XP, but it should also work). I | put a screenshot showing some of those features here | http://www.sbox.tugraz.at/home/t/trobin/wv2_1.png and here | http://www.sbox.tugraz.at/home/t/trobin/wv2_2.png. | It's planned to support Word 6 and Word 95 in the near future. I also have | some documentation about older formats (Word 2, 3, 4, 5), but I consider | support for other features like tables or embedded images more important. | | We think the filter has reached a stage where curious developers and users | might want to give it a try. This would help us to test the filter on real | world documents, not just on our limited set of test documents. | | How to install it: | 1) Get the "wv2" module from CVS [...] -- Vadim Plessky http://kde2.newmail.ru (English) 33 Window Decorations and 6 Widget Styles for KDE http://kde2.newmail.ru/kde_themes.html KDE mini-Themes http://kde2.newmail.ru/themes/ ____________________________________ koffice mailing list koffice@mail.kde.org To unsubscribe please visit: http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/koffice