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List:       koffice-devel
Subject:    Re: WordPerfect filter for 1.5.1
From:       David Faure <faure () kde ! org>
Date:       2006-04-21 18:17:24
Message-ID: 20060421181724.GD31758 () ktown ! kde ! org
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On Fri, Apr 21, 2006 at 08:02:23PM +0200, Ariya Hidayat wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> I've got an impressive patch from Fridrich Strba (of libwpd fame)
> which significantly improves the WordPerfect input filter and makes us
> almost on-par with the OO and Abiword.
> 
> I'd like to know whether I may commit this for 1.5.1; as it is rather
> big. I know that .1 release is normally for important bug fixes, but
> without this patch, the filter is very rudimentary anyway. And changes
> in filter code is (still) always considered bug fix, right?

Yep, sounds great.

> A a side note, the target output MIME type must be changed as well
> (from kword to sxw)

So it's  WordPerfect -> sxw -> kword ?
Hmm. If it's better than what we have now that's good, but in general it means
combining the limitations of the wpd importer with the limitations of the sxw importer...

Why did he choose sxw and not odt btw?

-- 
David Faure, faure@kde.org, sponsored by Trolltech to work on KDE,
Konqueror (http://www.konqueror.org), and KOffice (http://www.koffice.org).
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