Hub, Thanks! On Mon, 2002-03-18 at 17:56, Hubert Figuiere wrote: > On Tue, 2002-03-19 at 00:46, Austin Gonyou wrote: > > > > > > 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 ? >
I don't doubt that it's complex, but to say it's broken, when it clearly works in OpenWriter is not right. Overall, no one, ever likes, I mean ever, to clean up someone else's code, but it is probably the best damn importer I've seen for .Doc files, and re-writer, in the OSS community ever. Is OO that bad? Can some parts be changed to fit? > 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 ? > I will complain as well, and file another bug, or comment on that bug. More voices, more action? > > That always will be a problem. Word .doc and RTF files does not contain > a rendered layout... > Good point. Does the ABW format? > > Hub ----------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this list, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body.
