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List:       koffice
Subject:    Re: Great office suite
From:       shaheedhaque () btinternet ! com
Date:       2001-03-19 3:27:50
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OK, there is so much misinformation on the msword 
filter, I feel I must set the record, and more 
importantly, people's expectations, straight.

Here is the story with the msword filter. AFAIK, it was 
capable of importing the text (along with some limited 
formatting), lists and tables from word97 and word2000. 

Word95 is not really supported, but the main hooks are 
there if someone wants to invest some time in this.

Specifically, fast saves ARE fully supported.

Unfortunately, some of the valiant attempts to stablise 
some of the worst kword drawing issues in literally the 
days before 2.0 went out caused instability which often 
made it look as though the msword filter was crashing. 
This was hardly ever the case - it was kword itself.

After 2.0, I spent a long time trying to make 
embedding of objects work. All the code on the msword 
filter side is done, but kword itself was so unstable, that 
I suspended work pending the rewrite.

Once the rewrite of kword is done, I fully intend to 
resuscitate the msword filter. I know lots of people are 
cheesed of with the state of affairs...all I can say is 
please be patient. I don't have many choices at this 
point.

If you want to be really helpful, you could try to:

- flesh out the WMF filter (see what ytou can use from 
Martin Vermeer's excellent libwmf)

- reverse engineer enough of the WMF file format to 
understand how msword uses "Client Anchors". If you 
can do this.

These two would have a HUGE impact on our ability to 
support graphics. I have put all the filter architecture in 
place for this: once floating frames make it into kword, 
I expect you will be amazed by what is there 
(embedded spreadsheets, graphics, even the bare 
bones of powerpoint presentations).

Thanks, Shaheed

>> Does the newest ver. of koffice support office97 
data?
>> I'm having trouble loading my office97 documents.
>
>Support for MS Office 97 is limited to fairly simple 
documents.  95 docs >have 
>even more problems at this writing, but it is 
developing rapidly.  Stay 
>tuned.  Star Office documents, if saved in Office 97 
format seem to work 
>fairly well.  Using "fast-save" in Word produces real 
headaches in KWord >as 
>both the old and new versions are preserved.  Do 
a "full-save" before try>ing 
>an import.

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