Re: Saving files as .doc borked?

From: Austin Gonyou (austin@digitalroadkill.net)
Date: Mon Mar 18 2002 - 19:02:11 EST

  • Next message: Hubert Figuiere: "Re: Saving files as .doc borked?"

    Hub,
      Thanks!

    On Mon, 2002-03-18 at 17:56, Hubert Figuiere wrote:
    > On Tue, 2002-03-19 at 00:46, Austin Gonyou wrote:
    >
    >
    > >
    > > 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 ?
    >

    I don't doubt that it's complex, but to say it's broken, when it clearly
    works in OpenWriter is not right.
    Overall, no one, ever likes, I mean ever, to clean up someone else's
    code, but it is probably the best damn importer I've seen for .Doc
    files, and re-writer, in the OSS community ever.
    Is OO that bad? Can some parts be changed to fit?

    > 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 ?
    >

     
    I will complain as well, and file another bug, or comment on that bug.
    More voices, more action?

    >
    > That always will be a problem. Word .doc and RTF files does not contain
    > a rendered layout...
    >

    Good point. Does the ABW format?

    >
    > Hub

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