Re: WordPerfect conversion experience

--- Dmitri <project1@sharedlog.com> wrote:

>
> Hello there!
>
> I just want to let you know about my experience with converting
> WordPerfect with AbiWord.
> I was just testing it with the AbiWord-2.5.1 and the libwpd 0.8.9
> Here is what I noticed: even though AbiWord uses libwpd to convert
> WordPerfect docs, it does not do nearly as good a job if you just use
>
> wpd2html tool that comes with libwpd
>
> using AbiWord, it did not preserve font colors and highlights and the
>
> paragraphs looked like just a line break - I mean it did not have a
> blank line between paragraphs.
> wpd2html on the other hand, did preserve the font colors and
> paragraphs
> looked just fine. Also with AbiWord the bulleted list (ul) looked
> like a
> numbered list, it had numbers 1,2,3... instead of bullets, while with
>
> wpd2html bulleted lists looked just find.
>
> Here is how it looked with AbiWord --to=html
>
> http://www.codecomments.com/wpdx3.html
>
> and here is wpd2html converting the same wpd document
>
> http://www.codecomments.com/wpd3.html
>
> The wpd doc was created with WordPerfect X3
>
> one thing that AbiWord did better is the preserve the paragraph
> indentation, compare the text:
>
> And this paragraph is in arial font and large
>
> I was originally indented and AbiWord preserved it while wpd2html did
> not.
>
>

I just fixed the font color and highlighting problems (colors were
being exported like this: "color:##000000"). Feel free to file the
remaining issues in Bugzilla. Thanks.

 
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Received on Sun Apr 1 17:55:05 2007