I sent a message on June 9/06 inquiring about OO file format and got a helpful reply from CP Hennessy. I believe that, with considerable effort, we can enable our proofreading software to read OO document files. But before we embark on such an enterprise, I have a general question and a related problem.
Background: Since 1990, our software product, Editor has been reading and analyzing document files from Word (through v. 11, 2003--not yet v. 12, 2007), WordPerfect (through v. X3, 2005), Works (through v. 7, 2002, before they went), RTF, and HTML. We use filter routines that ignore all formatting information and graphics in such a file and produce a plain ANSI/ASCII text image in an internal buffer for analysis. Our output is plain text. My general question: is there a filter that can remove all formatting information from an OO document to produce a plain text copy of the document? The related problem: A customer sends the following message: "I would . . . like to report, as a potential problem, that RTF and Word documents exported from OpenOffice cannot be read by Editor. I have to [first] open them and save them in either Word or Wordpad." Is there an obvious reason why software that can read Word and RTF documents produced by Microsoft products cannot read Word or RTF documents formatted by Open Office? Does OO change the headers or the file extensions in some way? Thanks for your help. John Thiesmeyer Serenity Software [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.serenity-software.com This message (with attachments, if any) was checked for viruses before it was sent. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
