Ain wrote:
Why should OO.o open all possible file formats in the world.
a) Because the ability to open legacy documents is viewed as a strength by organizations that are migrating to ODF. b) What one person considers to be an obscure, insignificant file format, could be the mission critical format for another person.
So I don't well understand this effort, as even MS itself provides an utility to convert wps to doc:
a) Every time a document is translated into a different file format, data is lost. How significant the lost data is, depends upon the specific filters. b) That Microsoft provides a wps2doc filter is relevant only to users of their products. It is irrelevant to users of PerfectOffice, or users of OOo, or other ODF aware programs.
From my point of view creating filters for VERY marginal formats is a bit strange.
By that criteria, it is a waste of developer time to put any effort into supporting anything other than US-ASCII, because all other character encoding systems are marginal.
I just thought maybe we have more urgent tasks for such good developers. :)
If you want things that are critical, but AFAIK, aren't being done for OOo: * A filter to convert to/from Duxbury File Format is probably a more urgent task than one for converting PerfectOffice * A filter to convert ODF text to Moon; * A set of filters to convert ODF text to Grade 0 Braille, Grade 1.0 Braille, Grade 1.5 Braille, Grade 2.0 Braile, Grade 2.5 Braille, Grade 3.0 Braille, and Numeth Code. * A set of filters to convert ODF text to ASL; Ideally, OOo would support Moon, Numeth Code, ASL, and the different grades of Braille, as independent writing systems. Because of the design parameters of OOo, the only way that will happen, is with a major rewrite of Stylist.
the best choice is to refer to developer of this format.
And what makes you think that Microsoft, whoever currently owns PerfectOffice, or any other office suite file format specification owner is going to hand over the specifications of their file format to a competitor?
Solving office formats handling is one of easiest problems comparing eg. to cad-formats.
If it is easy, then the reason for not including a filter decreases even more. xan jonathon -- OOo can not correct for incompetence in creating documents from MSO. Furthermore,OOo can not compensate for the defective and flawed security measures used by Microsoft. As such, before using this product for exams that require faulty and defective software, ensure that you will not be unjustly penalized for the incompetence of the organization that requires the use of software that is known to be flawed, defective, bug-ridden, and fails to meet ISO file format standards. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
