Following up a question asked on the list that I answered I got this e-mail. Basically, his newspaper is interested in having someone of the Abiword development team living in the SF Bay Area being interviewed. Can anyone answer to this request ? This would be a nice advertising for the project, and I think that it is a good thing. Hub
Thanks, Hub. I'm not a programmer but I got a pretty good idea from the brief time I was subscribed to abiword-dev list (I just unsubscribed) of how much work it must have taken to get as far as you have. What I read about the open source code concept on the abiword Web site is interesting. There's a technology reporter for newspapers I work for in East Bay/San Francisco area (Oakland Tribune, San Mateo Times, etc.) who might be interested in doing a story if we can localize it (in other words talk to some abiword programmers who are living in our area -- I'm sure there are plenty). Are you in the Bay Area? Do you know others working on the project who are? I don't want to clutter up your list, but could you forward this to others if you think they might be interested in talking to us? I'm in Pleasanton, Calif. at (925) 416-4818 and am happy to take e-mail messages, forward them to our technology reporter, Bill Brand. Matt Carter Tri-Valley Herald [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ REPLY FROM: Matthew Carter DATE: 03-17-1 TIME: 02:02 FROM: MHS:HFIGUIER@C2SMTP (Hubert Figuiere) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> TO: Matthew Carter CC: MHS:ABIWORD-@C2SMTP <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> SUBJECT: Re: import wpd? PRIORITY: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ According to Matthew Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Just downloaded Abiword and seems like a good word processor. Doesn't seem to > be able to import wpd documents, though. Any plans to add that capability? > Lots of older gov't docs were created in Wordperfect. > > Seems only other option is to buy WordPerfect or Microsoft Word, which can > import wpd. The free Microsoft Word Reader doesn't handle them. > Matt, I clearly understand your concerns about WordPerfect file format support. This format is currently not support within AbiWord because of our limited resources. Not that this is technically impossible, but rather time huungry to support a new file format. We find more important to focus on main word processing feature, and on MS-Word import/export. In fact we would really love to have someone offering us a patch to provide WordPerfect import. Otherwise, this may take some time to have this. To answer your question we do have plan to support it but we juste have no timeframe for this. (in fact we plan to support any file format we can) Hub
