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List:       koffice-devel
Subject:    Re: RTF import
From:       David Faure <david () mandrakesoft ! com>
Date:       2001-08-30 7:49:38
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On Mercredi 29 Août 2001 21:48, Tomasz Grobelny wrote:
> On Tuesday 28 August 2001 22:36, Frank Dekervel wrote:
> > Op dinsdag 28 augustus 2001 20:37, schreef Tomasz Grobelny:
> > > Ewald Snel has written an RTF Import filer. It is functional although it
> > > has a lot of bugs as after our discussion he made a lot of changes in it.
> > > These changes made the filter easily managable and extensible (just add a
> > > function and an entry in a special table and you have new control word
> > > supported). It is being made faster as QDom is too slow and memory
> > > consuming for large(>100 pages) documents. The only thing I did is taking
> > > part in discussion and codepage support (added yesterday). I hope to do
> > > more for the project. I invite everyone to work on the filter with us
> > > (but ask Ewald Snel
> > > <ewald@rambo.its.tudelft.nl>).
> > > I started working on my filter(just as you did), then I posted similar
> > > mail to this list and then I contacted Ewald to start discussing about
> > > new filter. It was about a month ago. If you want to get source code ask
> > > me or Ewald (a better choice).
> >
> > Ok, i had a look at the koffice archives, and the feature list of the other
> > filter seems impressive. It would be cool if the newer filter was comitted
> > to the cvs (we can always revert if it goes wrong). (is there a reason for
> > not integrating the filter ?)
> >
> Not apart from that David Faure did not allow us to. Maybe he will do after 
> KOffice 1.1 is released.

Ah, the bad guy has been found ;-)
Yes, KOffice 1.1 is released now, you can import the new RTF filter.

(Sorry for forbidding this before 1.1, we already had many problems with another
filter being imported slightly before, and breaking compilation on some systems
etc. Sufficient testing before a release is really necessary).

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David FAURE, david@mandrakesoft.com, faure@kde.org
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