> > Can you explain this, please? I'd just like to
> know the reasons why I
> > can't directly import hundreds of Mariner Write
> documents into
> > AbiWord (sans RTF middlemen).
> >
>
> Well because no one has written the code to do the
> translation. And as Dom
> has said AbiWord developers have no reason to want
> to use Mariner Write so
> no AbiWord developers feels the need to work on
> them. If someone "out
> there" wants to write the code to import them and if
> the code is
> reasonable I'm sure we would include it in future
> builds.
1) Because there are 1700 bugs and enhancements before
this one in bugzilla and there are only so many hours
in the day.
2) Because Mariner's file format is undocumented, and
it'll take a lot of work and time to reverse-engineer
it. See point #1.
3) Because not a whole lot of people use Mariner
Write, so this isn't very high on our priority list.
See point #1.
4) Because my experience with Mariner as a company has
been lousy, as they've violated one of our product's
licenses on at least one occasion, possibly more. This
doesn't make me feel like wanting to support their
broken, undocumented, proprietary file format.
Best,
Dom
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