Subject: Office converters
From: Sean Young (sean@mess.org)
Date: Mon Nov 05 2001 - 09:25:12 CST
All,
No I haven't stopped working on Write import. In stead I've been looking
at a different issue: the importers/exporters that come with MS Office:
C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Textconv\
The .cnv files here are just simply dll's with a simple API. They convert
to and from rtf.
Since the API is really simple, we could do the following:
o Use the office importers in Abiword for Win32.
o Write our own office importer so that people using Word can save and
load Abiword files. New .cnv files are automagically added; all that
needs to be done is a create a standalone dll with the rtf importer
and exporter, re-write the API and we're in business.
What's your opinion on this? Do we want either of these?
I'm writing a commandline tool for Win32 that allows conversion to and
from everything that Word can do, eventually hoping to port it to linux
using Wine (or to be more specific, libwin32 from aviplay). Also this
can be put into Abiword (Windows version would be easiest and least
hassle for users).
Sean
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