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List:       koffice
Subject:    RE: Possible Work...
From:       Nicolas Goutte <nicog () snafu ! de>
Date:       2001-03-29 17:45:52
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Sorry, I should not have answered two mails at the same time, as it has 
made both wrong!

The re-use of any filter of another project is normally quite difficult.
The main problem is at the way the application wants its data feed (at 
import) or presents its data (at export).
This part can sometime be as complicated as the part dealing with the 
"foreign" format, especially if the "foreign" format is very different than 
the "native" format.

Then you also have all classical problems of porting code, like for example 
missing functions or even missing libraries.

However the best way to know how difficult the project may be is to try. 
:-)

-----Original Message-----
From:	John Mark Walker [SMTP:jmwalker@valinux.com]
Sent:	Thursday, March 29, 2001 7:07 PM
To:	'koffice@master.kde.org'
Subject:	RE: Possible Work...

That's not what he was asking. He was wondering if it was possible for
koffice to pillage from the powerpoint filters in use on the openoffice
project.

-JM

On Thu, 29 Mar 2001, Nicolas Goutte wrote:

> Sorry, no! For now, there is no OpenOffice filter for KOffice.
> Please look at http://www.koffice.org/filters/status.phtml for the status 
of the different filters.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Salvatore "Eric" Indiogine [SMTP:eindiog@pnm.com]
> Sent:	Thursday, March 29, 2001 6:19 PM
> To:	koffice@master.kde.org
> Subject:	Re: Possible Work...
>
> I have imported successfully PowerPoint files into StarOffice 5.2 on 
Linux.
>
> OpenOffice is the GPL version of StarOffice.  Would the KOffice project 
be
> able to use the OpenOffice PowerPoint filters?
>
> Eric Indiogine
>
> On Thursday 29 March 2001 03:56, Scott Dyer wrote:
> > What needs to be done to get KPresenter to read and write Powerpoint
> > files? I am sick and tired of having to drag windows around with me 
just
> > so I can edit and view powerpoint files.
> >
> > -Scott Dyer
> > Software Systems Engineer
> > MITRE Corporation
> > sdyer@mitre.org
>
>

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