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List:       koffice
Subject:    Re: Announcement: wv2 preview
From:       David Faure <david () mandrakesoft ! com>
Date:       2002-09-11 8:04:21
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On Wednesday 11 September 2002 07:49, Vadim Plessky wrote:
> 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?

Gone. Byebye ;)

> I know that Ariya Hidayat <ariya@kde.org> was comitting patches to that 
> filter, and those pacthes fixed import of many Word documents for me.

Yes so did a few other people, but trust me, that filter had many many problems,
and was lacking a lot of stuff that the new filter does already (most character
and paragraph properties). However it did some things (like tables, pictures
and emmbedded objects) that the new filter doesn't do _yet_. We'll come
around doing that, this is only an early announcement.

If you're concerned about cyrillic characters, I suspect this works just fine
(since we tested other non-latin1 stuff like hebrew), but feel free to send
one or two test documents to werner ;)

> On the other hand, does wv2 support *export* of Word documents?

Not yet, but that will hopefully come later (hmm, when Werner has finished
his studies? - joking ;))

> |  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)

The filter already uses stuff (from kofficecore, and kword features, but that's
a smaller problem) that wasn't in koffice-1.2. And it changes everyday.
It's not ready for being RPMized yet, imho.

- -- 
David FAURE, david@mandrakesoft.com, faure@kde.org
http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~david/
Contributing to: http://www.konqueror.org/, http://www.koffice.org/
Get the latest KOffice - http://download.kde.org/stable/koffice-1.2/
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