On Mon, 2002-03-18 at 17:38, Hubert Figuiere wrote: > On Tue, 2002-03-19 at 00:30, Austin Gonyou wrote: > > If I save a file as MS Word or RTF, then try to read it with something > > like OpenWriter, OpenWriter crashes immediately. > > Unless they tell us what is wrong in our file, then it is an OpenWriter > bug. Anyway their RTF importer is not really wonderful.
Yes, Much to be desired. Still, .doc is a binary format, and right now Abiword is saving as RTF1, with .doc extension. > > > > > Looking at the .doc, it shows that it's just RTF, at least it appears so > > to me. > > It is. The .doc saving feature is on illusion that we made to users so > that they stop asking us for that feature. Writing .doc file is far from > being on easy task.... > Office XP/2000 .doc code is available in OpenOffice. :) > > I'm curious what's going on here. This also goes the same for saving > > files as .DOC in OpenWriter then re-saving them in abiword. > > Sure since we completely rewrite the file. The point of that is that technically is a one-way conversion, so users of OpenOffice can't effectively open files from users of AbiWord if saved as RTF or .doc. I agree, OpenOffice's problem, but also Abisource's problem since that one-way conversion could break the stream of functionality in an business environment. > > However, documents sent to me by other people using word97, or 2000 open > > just fine in OpenWriter, whereas formatting is usually messed up in > > Abiword. This goes for RTFs too. > > Do they contain table ? Then you've got the answer. > Some do, obviously that won't work, but some are just tab driven, and the difference in font-rendering, etc, seems to cause a big problem. > > Hub Thx. ----------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this list, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body.
