On Tue, 2002-03-19 at 00:46, Austin Gonyou wrote:
> > > > > > > > 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. :) But it is broken, it is tied to OO framework and it is unreadable. What else ? > > 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. The problem is that they are NOT willing to fix their crappy importer. We already reported them a bug about image import/export in RTF and they said that they would not fix it. See OpenOffice issue #2244: http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=2244 What else can we do ? > 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. That always will be a problem. Word .doc and RTF files does not contain a rendered layout... Hub
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