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List:       koffice
Subject:    Re: Staroffice filter released yesterday...my perspective
From:       Kalle Dalheimer <kalle () dalheimer ! de>
Date:       2000-10-15 17:48:19
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On Sunday 15 October 2000 19:45, Navindra Umanee wrote:
> Reginald Stadlbauer <reggie@trolltech.com> wrote:
> > On Sun, 15 Oct 2000, Navindra Umanee wrote:
> > > As a previous StarOffice and current KOffice developer, do you have
> > > any thoughts or comments on what else can and should be ported from
> > > StarOffice to KOffice?  ;-)
> >
> > Are you referring to me with "previous StarOffice developer"? If yes, I
> > never was one :-) You probably mean Kalle...
>
> Ooops! :)  Any comments, Kalle?
>
> Cheers,
> Navin.

Well, of course the filters are an interesting thing. But this is not just 
some simple porting; the code is not very documented at all. I guess the best 
we can do for now is use the StarOffice code to get some ideas about 
individual file formats when we get stuck with developing our own filters. 
For example, if, say, Shaheed has a problem with implementing reading of 
embedded tables in MS-Word documents, he might be able to get some hints by 
looking at the StarOffice source code.

Apart from them, I doubt that we can take much. This is one big heap of code, 
and just finding a bit that we could use probably takes longer than 
implementing it ourselves, let alone adapting it.

Sorry for being so unenthusiastic,

Kalle


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