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List:       koffice-devel
Subject:    Re: MS filters
From:       cricketc () gmail ! com
Date:       2008-03-13 0:57:31
Message-ID: 8048fa030803121757v46f7304se1ae951efed7da21 () mail ! gmail ! com
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On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 6:34 PM, Werner Trobin <trobin@kde.org> wrote:
> On Wednesday 12 March 2008 23:20, Boudewijn Rempt wrote:
>  > On Wed, 12 Mar 2008, cricketc@gmail.com wrote:
>  > > Where are tables missing altogether? Isn't it in KWord?
>  >
>  > Yes.
>  >
>  > > If so,
>  > > couldn't the import filter (once it's writing to an odt instead of a
>  > > kword format) just put the tables in the odt file, whether or not
>  > > KWord can read those tables yet? i
>  >
>  > Yes again.
>  >
>  > > What does KWord currently do with
>  > > odt's that have tables in them?
>  >
>  > It sort of reads the tables and puts the text in the document.
>
>  Hi!
>
>  I'd just like to make that statement a bit more exact: wv2 (the engine that
>  really reads the .doc file), should be able to parse most Word tables.
>  However, the KOffice "frontend" which actually generates the kwd file doesn't
>  create a table from the provided information and just outputs the text
>  somewhere.
>
>  Ciao,
>  Werner
>
>  P.S. Yes, image import is missing, even in the engine. The problem is
>  that .doc files know about 10 different ways to embed an image and at some
>  point I gave up trying to unify this information to the "outside world", i.e.
>  provide a sane API for the frontends.
>
>  P.P.S. Unfortunately I don't have the time to act as a Google SoC "mentor",
>  but I surely can help a little bit.

Thanks both of you for the information. Since you've worked with this
code, what do you think would be a reasonable goal for an SoC? Convert
the msword filter to output an odt? Add basic image support to the
filter? Add table support to the filter? All of the above?
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