Subject: Re: open a Word DOC, but not save one?!?!?
From: Kevin D Regan (galabar@hotmail.com)
Date: Sat Aug 18 2001 - 16:45:25 CDT
David,
Thanks for the info. I'll take a look, but I'm not sure I have the time at
the moment... :-)
--Kevin
----- Original Message -----
From: "David Chart" <linux@dchart.demon.co.uk>
To: "Kevin D Regan" <galabar@hotmail.com>
Cc: <abiword-user@abisource.com>
Sent: Saturday, August 18, 2001 4:25 PM
Subject: Re: open a Word DOC, but not save one?!?!?
> There's a technical reason. If you make a debug build from the source
> code, it's there, but it, apparently, has serious problems. (I don't
> bother with it, just using rtf when I need to transfer to Word.)
>
> The 'Save As' and 'Open' options are, I think, largely independent. For
> example, the Debug build currently has a WordPerfect importer, but no
> exporter, and a KWord exporter, but no importer.
>
> AbiWord will save Word docs as soon as the relevant bit of code works.
> As a software developer, do you fancy helping out?
> --
> David Chart
>
>
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