Re: A few questions

From: Hubert Figuiere (hfiguiere@teaser.fr)
Date: Mon Sep 01 2003 - 03:31:49 EDT

  • Next message: Julien Olivier: "Re: A few questions"

    On Sun, 2003-08-31 at 13:02, Julien Olivier wrote:

    > - I have tried to open a few DOC files sent to me by my boss and, while
    > most of them were almost perfectly converted, those containing diagrams
    > (I guess there is a drawing tool in MS Word) didn't work: the diagrams
    > didn't appear at all.

    The problem is more tricky than it sounds, because Word does things
    behind your back without telling. If the diagram is an embedded object
    (from the OLE point of view) then you are SOL. This is what happen when
    diagrams comes from Visio, Micrografx Designer and problem any other
    Windows program that do that. One of the thing that make this more
    complicated is that most of the time you also need the original program
    (at least for Micrografx Designer this happened as a Word doc created on
    Windows did not contain the pictures when open on Mac because Word on
    Mac did not know what to do). You don't dream of that feature. You have
    nightmares !!

    > - Still related to the former question, is there or will there be a
    > drawing tool in Abiword ? I mean something to draw basic geometrical
    > shapes and arrows.

    I don't think we'll do that. It is a word processor, not a nuclear
    plant. But we'll add sometime in the future embedding capabilities to
    allow seamlessly edit diagram in an external tool. We already have
    plug-ins for that to open bitmap images in GIMP.

    [...]

    > - I noticed that there is no function to create a table of contents
    > automatically. Are there any plans for that in the future ? I think
    > that's a must-have for any serious word processor. Well, at least I use
    > it very much :)

    http://bugzilla.abisource.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1950

    [...]

    Hub

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