Mathias Bauer wrote:
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. :-)
I remember there was one thing more - because confusing file extensions
beginning with wp*, users think, that these are WP files and try to open
them with WP filter. So maybe it is quite clever to have this togeteher.
I had yesterday a period of negativism, it happens sometimes. ;)
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