Importing Spreadsheets (Was: Re: Mime-types)

[Hubert Figuiere]

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>(Actually, the real culprit is Excel spreadsheets, which seem to have
>a minimum bulk of a couple megs.  If we had an importer that converted
>and Excel spreadsheet into a static table in AbiWord, well, I could
>start renting out my extra disk space.)


The idea is not that bad at all. Perhaps we could make a Gnumeric 
importer that can use Gnumeric import filters. That would avoid us 
reinventing the would (but not without causing portability problems).



Hub