From koffice-devel Thu Jul 11 14:07:31 2002 From: Ariya Hidayat Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2002 14:07:31 +0000 To: koffice-devel Subject: Library for MS Word filters (again) X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=koffice-devel&m=102639655520586 This is as a follow-up to TJ's recent post in koffice, as I believe it's better to go to koffice-devel first. Feel free to cross-post. Although T.J mentions wv2 and POI, I think we should not forget our _current_ MS Word filter. As Shaheed pointed out, it's already in a good shape and only needs improvements to make it someday on par with OO or at least Abiword's wv. Another issue that needs to be examined is embedding support. AFAIK our current filter framework support embedding quite well, i.e Excel inside Word will be KSpread inside KWord, CMIIW. How is the status of such embedding support in POI (HSSF and HDF) ? OTOH, I'm quite glad this topic is heated again :-) To Werner, even though the code wasn't changed in the last month, at least there's little activites (better than none). Like what has been mentioned, it's also quite annoying to improve Excel filters but the certain features in KSpread (such as functions) are missing which should explain why somehow I moved to "fix" KSpread first. I hope I'll be free next month and then able to keep my promise about (yet another) OLE storage library for KOffice. I believe libole2 will die soon, Jody Goldberg (from Gnumeric's fame) develops libgsf as a replacement for libole2 (among others) as he stated in gnome-office mailing list. Gnumeric and Abiword slowly switch to libgsf. Just my 2 cents. Ariya _______________________________________________ koffice-devel mailing list koffice-devel@mail.kde.org http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/koffice-devel