Hi folks, The Psion exporter is ready for use. It is still not completely finished, but it already works very well: // To do: // Check and fix characters with high ASCII codes // Check and fix characters with low ASCII codes. // Support styles // Check what we need to base our formats on ie. what is the // base paragraph or character layout - probably determined // by style?!? // Add support for bullets // Better determination of font type (serif, sansserif or nonproportional) // Add support for other sections (page-level layout, headers, footers) // Add support for objects, fields, format marks There may be other things that AbiWord offers which can somehow be represented by Psion files. The patch, which includes some work on the Psion importer which was not yet applied to CVS, can be found on my website: http://huizen.dds.nl/~frodol/psiconv/psiconv-abipeer.diff.gz You also need the psiconv peer-directory. This version corresponds to psiconv-0.8.1; people who downloaded an earlier version should get the new one instead. http://huizen.dds.nl/~frodol/psiconv/psiconv-abipeer.tgz Instead of installing the peer directory, you could also simply install psiconv-0.8.1 completely: http://huizen.dds.nl/~frodol/psiconv/ I copy below some comments from a december mail of mine: WARNING: This patch will enable psiconv for all platforms, even though it is not tested on all of them! Compile failures may follow! Apply at your own risk... Some comments on the build system (please read this before applying it): * First the peer directory is checked; if nothing is found in it, the system directories /usr/include and /usr/local/include are checked for a `psiconv' directory, and if found, a system-wide install is assumed. The system-wide install check is probably only good enough for Unix, but you can't have everything. * If the peer directory psiconv is used, it is linked statically to the abiword binary; if a system-wide install is used, a dynamically linked library will be picked up if found. * The intermediate object files and the resulting library are not put into the global build library, but in the psiconv peer directory. If somebody wants to change that, he is welcome to do so; but right now, it makes life a lot easier on me. As there is no difference between debug builds and normal builds for libpsiconv, it should be safe. * Psiconv uses autoconf, automake and libtool. It builds completely independent of the abi tree. It picks up its own versions of functions not generally available on all platforms, instead of the abiword ones. Again, if people want to, they are free to change this. * I have removed the ABI_OPT_PSICONV Makefile define * I have put psiconv into require/xp/Makefile . If it turns out not to build at all for certain platforms, we will have to move it to the platform-dependent Makefiles. * The version of libpsiconv is the same as in the package psiconv-0.8.1. Good luck, Frodo -- Frodo Looijaard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP key and more: http://huizen.dds.nl/~frodol Defenestration n. (formal or joc.): The act of removing Windows from your computer in disgust, usually followed by the installation of Linux or some other Unix-like operating system.
