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List:       koffice-devel
Subject:    Re: HTML export filter (was: Re: OOWriter export)
From:       Johannes Wilm <j () indymedia ! no>
Date:       2003-07-15 0:00:03
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On Tuesday 15 July 2003 01:54, nicolasg@snafu.de wrote:
> I am surprised that tables do not work at all. They were
> supposed to work in Koffice 1.2.x (I cannot check now.)

I believe the RTF-filter was completely remade with libexport?

>
> Otherwise, I had not any time to work on the HTML export for
> KOffice 1.3 and I cannot plan if I will have any time for
> KOffice 1.4. So you might become the new maintainer for KWord's
> HTML export filter.
>
> As for text frames, it is a problem of all KWord export
> filters, including plain text. If you can find a better
> solution that any of those given in the two KOffice mailing
> lists, it would surely be a great advance, also for the
> OOWriter export filter.

Zack seems to have commited his stuff tolibexport now. This should make me 
able to apply my patch to the RTF-filter. I can look at the html-filter as 
well if the feature freeze gets changed to the 4th of August.

--
Johannes Wilm


>
> Have a nice day!
>
> --- Original Message ---
> List:     koffice-devel
> Subject:  Re: HTML export filter (was: Re: OOWriter export)
> From:     Zack Rusin <zackrat () att ! net>
> Date:     2003-06-19 19:55:56
>
> On Thursday 19 June 2003 17:29, nicolasg@snafu.de wrote:
> > Well, for now HTML export filter is the most useful filter
>
> for KWord,
>
> > as long as we do not know the qualitiy of the RTF export
>
> filter. (It
>
> > has many bugs opened for now.) So personally I would be
>
> careful
>
> > before changing it, especially of what seems rather extended
>
> changes.
>
> Well, the usefulness of that filter is highly objective. For me
> it's
> useless, since it exports less than the ascii export filter.
> Why less?
> Try exporting any table - you'll get nothing, not even the text
> from
> the table is exported, it's just ignored. Furthermore try to
> insert a
> new text frame - its contents will be appended at the very end
> of the
> html file completely neglecting its placement in the original
> document.
> To see all those and a few others try exporting the following
> two page
> document to html : http://www.automatix.de/~zack/test.kwd . So
> between
> dissapearing and missplaced text I don't think there's a lot
> that could
> be broken.
>
> > I am sorry but I am not currently in the position of tracking
>
> and
>
> > verifying changes but the "fix" for bug 59029 means that I am
>
> already
>
> > forced to do it.
>
> Not in the best mood or have you been watching a lot of drama
> lately?
> You sounded like my fix would cause serious regressions and
> cost you
> days of forced work. In fact it fixed probably 5 out of 10
> cases where
> the bug occurred and didn't cause ANY regressions. If something
> doesn't
> break anything and still fixes some occurrences of a bug - it's
> still a
> fix albeit not perfect. Anyway, I fixed it properly in the cvs.
>
> Zack
>
>
>
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