Ain Vagula schrieb: > Mathias Bauer wrote: >> >> Well, seems that some people don't share your opinion. ;-) >> Andrew Ziem and Fridrich Strba who already provided us with the nice >> WordPerfect filter are currently very busy adding Works text import to >> OOo. Please read >> >> http://libwps.sourceforge.net/ >> http://fridrich.blogspot.com/ > > ;) > I was aware of this. I also know that creating perfect filters is very > time consuming task and needs a well-qualified developers. So I dont > well understand this effort, as even MS itself provides an utility to > convert wps to doc: > http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=b9e11e83-f51b-4977-b572-8c042df802c1&displaylang=en
That's not what most users will do, especially those who only occasionally have some wps documents. My rough guess from browsing through the users and discuss lists in the last 2 years is that the Works filter is the most wanted import filter for Writer so I appreciate the work of Andrew and Fridrich. > From my point of view creating filters for VERY marginal formats is a > bit strange. But as we all know better how to waste our time - and > sometimes creating such a filter can be a good proof for developer, I'll > avoid to judge. I just thought maybe we have more urgent tasks for such > good developers. :) Agreed. But that's open source development: if somebody wants it, he does it. :-) Ciao, Mathias -- Mathias Bauer (mba) - Project Lead OpenOffice.org Writer OpenOffice.org Engineering at Sun: http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS Please don't reply to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]". I use it for the OOo lists and only rarely read other mails sent to it. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
