Re: OpenDocument plugin for AbiWord is "finished"!

From: Dom Lachowicz <domlachowicz_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Tue Dec 20 2005 - 00:05:37 CET

Thanks DAD :) Keep up the nice work!

-Dom

--- Daniel d'Andrada Tenório de Carvalho
<daniel.carvalho@indt.org.br> wrote:

>
> 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
>

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