Re: OpenOffice.org and AbiWord: Both happily displaying WordPerfect

From: Martin Sevior (msevior@physics.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Thu Nov 07 2002 - 07:26:26 EST

  • Next message: Dom Lachowicz: "Commit: 4181"

    On Thu, 7 Nov 2002 wlach@interlog.com wrote:

    > Hi all,
    >
    > Marc and I have been collaborating on a project to generalize the
    > main bulk of our WordPerfect logic filter into a library. I spent the
    > last few weeks cooking up an OpenOffice.org filter using this framework
    > (we also wrote an AbiWord filter using libwpd in just a few hours).
    >
    > Work progresses on creating the design for a second iteration of the library, which will
    > hopefully be used by KWord, AbiWord, and ooWriter for really robust WordPerfect
    > 5.x/6/7/8/9/10 import/export.
    >
    > You can see the results here: http://libwpd.sourceforge.net.
    >

    Congratulations Will and Marc. This is a significant achievement.
    Hopefully your actions will inspire the sharing of other filters via
    libraries as well as being the core of the state of the art WP
    import/export filter.

    Cheers

    Martin



    This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.4 : Thu Nov 07 2002 - 07:35:51 EST