OpenDocument plugin for AbiWord is "finished"!

Hi all,

This should be my last week of work on this project, although I will
continue to support it fixing the bugs that are likely to appear over
time (as it gets tested by users).

Both exporter and importer sides have all features implemented, but I'm
far from stating that they are really finished. After all, what piece of
software ever gets finished? :-)

The import isn't lossless and I don't know if it ever will. AbiWord
implements some features very differently from OpenDocument and some
others are not implemented by AbiWord at all (it's not a critique, the
two programs are just different from each other, that's all) with frames
(i.e. textboxes and wrapped images) being the most problematic feature.

The export is in a better situation. AbiWord implements a kind of subset
of the OpenDocument features, so that's an easier job.

But this does not mean that the plugin is unusable. It in fact does a
pretty good (lossless) job handling most common types of documents.

The bottom line is: It's ready and you can use it, but don't expect it
to be perfect. And please, make a bug report when you find one! :-)

It was great to get involved with the AbiWord community. Thanks all of
you guys!

Daniel d'Andrada T. de Carvalho - INdT
Received on Mon Dec 19 15:13:21 2005