Subject: Re: OpenOffice code use
From: Hubert Figuiere (hfiguiere@teaser.fr)
Date: Tue Nov 14 2000 - 03:11:48 CST
According to Sam TH <sam@uchicago.edu>:
> On Mon, Nov 13, 2000 at 11:22:50PM +0100, Hubert Figuiere wrote:
> >
> > Just a simple question: has anybody had a look at OpenOffice source code,
> > mainly file filters in sw/source/filter directory, to know what we could
> > gather from it to help AbiWord supporting more file formats ?
> >
> > I know, this is a huge source tree (around 460 MB untarred on my Linux), but
> > this may be worth a little bit. As I could see, German fluency is a plus to
> > work on it :-).
> >
>
> I don't think anyone has tackled this yet. It was my understanding
> that they didn't have much in the way of filters (those were 3rd party
> libraries), but if they do, stealing is highly encouraged. For
> eaxample, a WordPerfect filter (which I thought they had) would be
> wonderful.
I don't find a WordPerfect filter, but I do find:
-Lotus (Word Pro ?)
-several Word variations
-StarOffice :-)
The problem is that file names are in 8.3 format and file purpose is not
clearly stated...
Hub
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