Subject: Commit: Re: [Patch] Psiconv TextEd and Word importer
From: Martin Sevior (msevior@mccubbin.ph.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Tue Dec 19 2000 - 22:23:09 CST
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Frodo Looijaard's Psion Import patch. This is great work.
On Wed, 20 Dec 2000, Frodo Looijaard wrote:
> Martin Sevior wrote:
>
> > So yes I think we should have native Psion import (and export). I'd love
> > to have native Palmdoc import to go with our Palmdoc export capabilities.
>
> Well, for the Psion it is exactly reversed: import is working well, and
> I am hoping that export will come too one day, but it is not yet
> there. It will first need libpsiconv support (at least, that is the place
> I want to implement it), and though probably not too difficult, it will
> take a little time.
>
> By the way, for those interested: the reason that I started with importing
> support in libpsiconv (which is usually more difficult than exporting),
> is simple: the Psion file formats were nowhere documented. The amusing
> part of it is that Psion itself claimed that they 'did not have it and
> could not create it because there was no file format at all': streams
> are used to write the files. They seemingly think that a computer can
> automagically figure out what all those streams mean, where they start
> and where they stop, but that it is impossible for a human to do so, or
> for any other computer program except their own importer. They were
> wrong ;-)
>
> > It's probabally better to have a well maintained library in Abi that you
> > periodically update from your "bleeding edge" library elsewhere. This
> > seems to work for wv.
>
> That's all right with me. We'll just have to prepare a build system,
> throw away the OPT_ABI_PSICONV option and hope libpsiconv will compile
> on all systems (well, the last is the least of my worries; I'll just
> have to remember to backport any fixes to my CVS archive again).
>
> > We haven't implemented these on any other than our native import/export
> > file formats yet. I think your best bet is to look at ie_imp_AbiWord_1 and
> > some *.abw files with header/footer/lists/styles in them.
>
> I know the file format, I just need to figure out what functions to call
> to have it added to the internal representation that is being built while
> we are reading a file; or alternatively, how to write supporting functions
> that do that for me. I'll take another peek at the native AbiWord file
> importer and the appendSpan/appendFmt/appendBlock functions.
>
> > Looking forward to those Psion files :-)
>
> As they were quite small, I just sent them to the list.
>
> Thanks,
> Frodo
>
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