From koffice-devel  Mon Jul 22 05:19:40 2002
From: Werner Trobin <trobin () kde ! org>
Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2002 05:19:40 +0000
To: koffice-devel
Subject: Re: Kontour. Problems, solution?
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On Sunday 21 July 2002 23:16, Nicolas Goutte wrote:
> On Samstag, 20. Juli 2002 23:16, Nicolas Goutte wrote:
> > Whatever the solution, I think that it should be decided fast.
> >
> > We have also problems with the filters, depending on Kontour's version.
> >
> > 1. Kontour's RTF export filter: it should better work with the old version
> > or perhaps not at all. In any case, it needs the version in CVS HEAD, as
> > the old one wants KIllustrator and is inside the KWord's filter. However
> > the CVS HEAD KWord filter does *not* contain the Kontour filter anymore.
> >
> > 2. KWord's MS Word import filter: it uses Kontour for cliparts. No idea if
> > it would work with an old Kontour, no idea if it would work when we would
> > force the clipart to become a picture. (The filter seems to permit it as
> > far as I can tell.) The problem of using a picture is that it was never
> > tested with KWord's unified pictures and the filter is *not* generating
> > <KEY>.
> 
> It is worse than I thought. MSOD can only be handled with Kontour. The 
current 
> state seems not to work, however I have no idea if Kontour's MSOD filter is 
> supposed to work or not.
> (MSOD also handles the JPEG and PNG images in MS Word.)

IIRC Shaheed disabled the MSOD support as Kontour crashed way too often and 
the people (obviously) blamed the filter.
 
Ciao,
Werner
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