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List:       koffice-devel
Subject:    Re: invited by abiword to work together on doc import
From:       Waldo Bastian <bastian () kde ! org>
Date:       2001-05-23 21:28:26
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On Wednesday 23 May 2001 14:47, shaheed wrote:
> > wvWare and Abi both have really good support for importing DOC. I'm
> > trying to add support for exporting to DOC inside of wvWare right now,
> > though. If anyone from the KWord development team is reading this and
> > would like to collaborate on making something like this a reality, I'd
> > really appreciate it. I'd hate to see a duplication of effort on this
> > sort of scale when it could so easily be avoided.
>
> Dom,
>
> Thanks for your note. Before embarking on the KWord import filter, I put
> some serious effort into perusing the wvWare code. At the time, I was
> forced to conclude that I would be better off starting from scratch. I
> repeated the analysis process when StartOffice was opened up, with a
> similar result.
>
> So, for the present, possibly the best that we can do on the import front
> is to steal each other's code as appropriate.

Myabe it's usefull to have a small mailinglist that can be used to exchange 
information about the pecularities of certain formats. The code might be 
different, but the problems that it faces are still the same of course.

Cheers,
Waldo
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