From: Hubert Figuiere (hfiguiere@teaser.fr)
Date: Mon Mar 18 2002 - 18:56:05 EST
On Tue, 2002-03-19 at 00:46, Austin Gonyou wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > Looking at the .doc, it shows that it's just RTF, at least it appears so
> > > to me.
> >
> > It is. The .doc saving feature is on illusion that we made to users so
> > that they stop asking us for that feature. Writing .doc file is far from
> > being on easy task....
> >
>
> Office XP/2000 .doc code is available in OpenOffice. :)
But it is broken, it is tied to OO framework and it is unreadable. What
else ?
> > Sure since we completely rewrite the file.
>
> The point of that is that technically is a one-way conversion, so users
> of OpenOffice can't effectively open files from users of AbiWord if
> saved as RTF or .doc. I agree, OpenOffice's problem, but also
> Abisource's problem since that one-way conversion could break the stream
> of functionality in an business environment.
The problem is that they are NOT willing to fix their crappy importer.
We already reported them a bug about image import/export in RTF and they
said that they would not fix it.
See OpenOffice issue #2244:
http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=2244
What else can we do ?
> Some do, obviously that won't work, but some are just tab driven, and
> the difference in font-rendering, etc, seems to cause a big problem.
That always will be a problem. Word .doc and RTF files does not contain
a rendered layout...
Hub
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