dear folks, Here is Bart's reply from my inquiry about HancomOffice file format. As he pointed, unless we have a Korean-speaking hacker (please please tell me if you know someone!), we have to hold until HancomOffice 3.0, which fortunately will have XML format. Ariya :: ariya@kde.org :: www.advogato.org/person/ariya ---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Subject: Re: HancomOffice file format Date: 27 May 2002 00:41:29 -0700 From: Bart Decrem To: Ariya Hidayat Hi Ariya, Thanks for your message. Yes, we were contacted by the Abiword developers about import/export filters for Hancom Word. Here's the situation though: - Hancom Sheet and Presenter were developed inhouse so for those applications, there are no intellectual property issues and I should be able to dig up documentation for you. However, there's a good chance that the documentation will be in Korean, so that may be a problem - Hancom Word's file format was licensed by our original mother company, Haansoft, so we must obtain permission from them before we can release information about the file format. It turns out that there is one document that exists that describes the file format but it's about 200 pages long and it's in Korean (and Babelfish does a VERY poor job translation Korean documents) - For Hancom Office 3.0, for which I believe we'll do at least a preview release at LWE New York, in January 2003, we are switching all of our file formats (including Word) to open XML file formats that may be very similar to OpenOffice Based on this information, unless you have a Korean hacker who's interested in taking the lead on this project, I recommend that you hold off at least on Hancom Word m/x filters. For Sheet and Presenter, would you like me to dig around a bit to see if I can find documentation in English, or do you just want to wait until we have an XML file format? The Abiword folks, obviously, were only interested in the Word filters so I've recommended to them that they put this on hold until our 3.0 preview release. Let me know, Bart _______________________________________________ koffice-devel mailing list koffice-devel@mail.kde.org http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/koffice-devel