Re: Blank ruler cursor - Resizing Windows

On Fri, 23 Sep 2005, Hubert Figuiere wrote:

> Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2005 12:32:40 -0400
> From: Hubert Figuiere <hfiguiere@teaser.fr>
> To: abiword-user@abisource.com
> Subject: Re: Blank ruler cursor - Resizing Windows
>
>
> Alan Horkan wrote:
>
> >>Cherry on top feature request: A Mariner Write importer.
> >
> >
> > Is their format documented? (I'm assuming not, which makes it practically
> > imposible to support.) As they are selling a commericial product and
> > have paid developers and support staff to work on improving their
> > product it might be better to ask them to improve their support for RTF
> > and ODT.
>
> AFAIK it is not documented.

Supporting file formats is a really big and difficult task and it needs to
be done really well to be worth doing. The excellent work done by
the libwpd developers may have made it seem easy but it really is not and
it took them a whole lot of effort even with a documented file format like
WordPerfect.

Until OpenDocument arrived RTF was and is the best way to change documents
between word processors which is why the abiword developers have always
worked particularly hard at making sure it was well supported.

> > Aren't they the people using Abiword for their own Microsoft Word support?
>
> No that is Nisus with Nisus Writer Express.

Right, thanks that was who I was thinking of.

- Alan
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Received on Fri Sep 23 19:00:07 2005