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Subject: Staroffice filter released yesterday...my perspective
From: "Shaheed Haque" <shaheedhaque () hotmail ! com>
Date: 2000-10-14 12:25:05
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Hi all,
Just to let you all know that the Staroffice released yesterday DOES include
at least the Word filter. I assume (but did not check) that Excel etc. are
also supported.
The word filter is at:
http://www.openoffice.org/source/browse/sw/sw/source/filter/ww8
I did have a quick look, and the first thing is that the comments are in
German. I don't know German as such, but I think I can understand at least
50% of what is there. The code has some comments...not enough, but some. So,
at a minimum, we are going to be able to take advantage of the effort they
have put into reverse engineering.
For example, even a quick perusal of a small piece of code shows interesting
things (e.g. SwWW8ImplReader::ReadGrafFile thinks that GIF files have mm ==
94, compared to the documented value of 98). Only time will tell which is
right. But at least, we have a source of truth other than the Microsoft
version, wv, and my own fevered imagination!
I look forward to on-going cross-fertilisation of ideas between wv, SO and
our code. So, well done Sun!
Thanks, Shaheed
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