Re: New Import/Export Filter - Palm Doc


Subject: Re: New Import/Export Filter - Palm Doc
From: sam th (sam@uchicago.edu)
Date: Tue Jul 25 2000 - 15:29:44 CDT


On Tue, 25 Jul 2000, David Nay wrote:

> Hi all.
>
> I am new to AbiWord, and I would like to start making
> contributions to the code base. The first thing I
> would like to do is to write a new import/export
> filter to enable AbiWord to create and read Palm Doc
> formatted .prc files. As I am realatively new to C++,
> I do not think this will be too much of a challenge
> for me (but I have been wrong before :-). First I
> would like to make sure that there is no one already
> working on this feature, and also if there are any
> early hints/tips/tricks/traps that anyone can point
> out to me before I get started.

I'm almost positive no one has started working on this yet. The
import/export code is actually fairly clean and easy to understand, and we
would be very appreciative of additional filters.

                                sam th
                                sam@uchicago.edu
                                http://www.abisource.com/~sam



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