From: msevior@physics.unimelb.edu.au
Date: Thu Aug 28 2003 - 17:26:28 EDT
> --- Alan Horkan <horkana@maths.tcd.ie> wrote:
>> Developers interested in improving any part of
>> Abiword are always welcome
>> and help is always available on this list.
>
> I couldn't agree with this moreso. If you have time to
> help out, it is always greatly appreciated by both the
> other developers and users alike.
>
> "Well, I dropped the idea of creating the [DOC] export
> code. One reason is that it's just an insane amount of
> work and I'm only one person with a very limited
> amount of time. The second reason is, that it's
> possible to express 100% (yes, really 100%, just read
> the RTF spec on MSDN) of the MS Word features using
> RTF. Due to that I'd rather help with RTF export than
> waste my time on direct .doc export."
>
> http://dot.kde.org/1061919133/1061925827/1061926927/
>
Which is exactly why I've spent so much time and effort to get 100%
perfect export to RTF. We're not quite there but we're damn close. Users
saving their docs to RTF can be quite confident that both AbiWord and MS
Word will reload import their document perfectly.
Cheers
Martin
> Cheers,
> Dom
>
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