On Tuesday 21 February 2006 19:49, Christoph Sch?fer wrote: > Am Dienstag, 21. Februar 2006 19:36 schrieb PLinnell: > > On Tuesday 21 February 2006 18:58, Christoph Sch?fer wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > > > today I installed a current cvs with the new Word importer and > > > also antiword to make it work. Distro is SuSE 10.0. Antiword is > > > installed under $home/bin. Now, doc is in the file list for > > > text import, but I can't import a single Word file (text frames > > > remain empty). > > > > > > Under my SuSE 9.3 antiword is in usr/bin and everything works > > > fine. > > > > > > Any ideas on what's going wrong. > > > > > > I also noticed that the Word importer doesn't recognise > > > paragraph styles as the sxw/odt importers do. Is this a > > > limitation of antiword? > > > > > > > > > Cheers, > > > > > > Christoph > > Hi Peter, > > > Hi, > > > > As soon as www.scribus has one more issue sorted, I will have > > Suse 10.0 rpms for antiword which do work. > > Thanks for that. It's not really important for me since I am using > OO.o anyway, but probably for others ... > > > The idea of antiword is to strip all the style stuff out and get > > plain text. So, OO is better if the styles are important. > > Hmm, so antiword must be regarded as an interim solution? I noticed > on the bugtracker that the PDB importer has used some code from > AbiWord. Wouldn't it be possible to do this for DOC as well (And > WPD)? AbiWord and KWord are out there, and the importer doesn't > need all the features, only text formatting and paragraph styles. >
Like everything, just need time and motivation :-) Peter
