From koffice Wed Mar 01 07:35:33 2000 From: "Schmidt, Frank-Andreas" Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2000 07:35:33 +0000 To: koffice Subject: AW: document filters and usability X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=koffice&m=95189625005797 First of all: I donīt see any other open source office application besides KOffice. All I can see are ported windoof-apps. Second: Filters donīt write themselves. Third: Donīt complain ! Help yourself, get coded. Greetings, --Frank P.S. Hope that wasnīt too sarcastic, but I couldnīt resist. > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > Von: Marko Samastur [SMTP:markos@elite.org] > Gesendet am: Dienstag, 29. Februar 2000 20:14 > An: koffice@max.tat.physik.uni-tuebingen.de > Betreff: document filters and usability > > Hello, > > I read in several articles, that Koffice teams is working on few > document filters and the ones usually mentioned are CSV, RTF, Word 97 > and Excel 97. How about AbiWord and other open source office > applications? Will they use the same document format or is there at > least some discussion going on about that? Or will KWord (KSpread and > co.) need filters and somebody to write them? > > It would be a bit ironic, if open source community shared the same > problems that plaque proprietary world. > > Best regards, > > Marko