Re: Differant Formats

Shaw Terwilliger (sterwill@postman.abisource.com)
Thu, 22 Jul 1999 17:21:10 -0500


Brandon L. Griffith wrote:
> Has anyone written a script/program to convert the abiword format to
> others such as word perfect or MSWord, etc...etc... and vise-versa? Or
> has anyone attempted to do this and halt for some reason?
> I just got AbiWord, and really haven't had time to go through it, so if
> someone has could you please point me to the URL?
> Thanks in advance.

It has been requested that we add command-line capabilities
to import a document through one filter and export them
through another. So far no one, that I know of, has taken
on this effort, but it would not be a tremendously difficult
undertaking. The hard parts, decoding and encoding foreign
file formats, is already mostly taken care of.

As a side note, we don't have a matching import filter
for every export filter, and vice-versa. For example,
we currently do not have a Microsoft Word exporter, but
we do have an importer, so documents could not be written
to that format.

-- 
Shaw Terwilliger


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