Re: What's the status of import filters?

From: Martin Sevior (msevior@physics.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Mon Oct 21 2002 - 20:37:58 EDT

  • Next message: Rich Shepard: "Re: What's the status of import filters?"

    On Tue, 2002-10-22 at 03:32, Rich Shepard wrote:
    > How close is AbiWord to being able to import WordPerfec/8 docs? I have
    > about a decade's worth of project files and WP no longer works on the 2.4.19
    > kernel with glibc-2.2. I need a way to access these files with a living,
    > breathing word processor.
    >

    I've forwarded your question to the development list. We actually have a
    very good WP importer in CVS head that is very actively improved. Last I
    saw it was happily importing docs with tables into abiword.

    Cheers

    Martin

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