From koffice  Wed Aug 01 02:50:53 2001
From: Ralph Castain <ralph () castain ! org>
Date: Wed, 01 Aug 2001 02:50:53 +0000
To: koffice
Subject: Re: interested in helping
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Sounds great. I'd be happy to tackle these areas - or at least start with one. Can you folks send me some info on how/where to start? Obviously, I can download the source code - but a little more guidance (eg how to fit what I do into the project management, etc) would be helpful.

Ralph

At 12:44 AM 8/1/2001 -0400, shaheed wrote:
>Hi Ralph,
>
>We could really use some help on Microsoft filters:
>
>- Werner is spearheding work on the next generation MSWord import/export 
>filters to be shared with wvWare (and hence AbiWord). I'm sure he would 
>welcome help
>
>- The Excel filter was being hacked very part-time by Nikolas, and its a lot 
>easier to get into than the MSWord one. It could use some attention - e.g. 
>support for embedded documents.
>
>- The Powerpoint filter is virtually non-existent...but you might think its 
>less important than the other
>
>- The MS Office Drawing needs finishing, but there is considerable scope for 
>someone to replace the (several) WMF implementations with libwmf2. Since 
>libwmf2 is in active development and a lot of Word documents use them, this 
>would be really useful.
>
>Thanks, Shaheed