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Subject:    Fwd: Re: HancomOffice file format
From:       Ariya Hidayat <ariya () tf ! itb ! ac ! id>
Date:       2002-05-27 12:39:08
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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

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Subject: Re: HancomOffice file format
Date: 27 May 2002 00:41:29 -0700
From: Bart Decrem <bart@hancom.com>
To: Ariya Hidayat <ariya@kde.org>


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

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