Re: libwv vs libwv2

As far as I know, libwv2 isn't being developed any more. I blame
myself for failing to live up to my promises to the Koffice guys.

libwv-1.2.x works, but the utility you're looking for (wvHtml) is
unmaintained. It is considered deprecated in favor of using AbiWord's
command-line interface. This is due to a lack of time and interest on
my part.

AbiWord uses the most recent version of libwv-1.2.x, so your worry
about it using an outdated version of libwv is moot.

Get a recent version of libwmf2. And make sure that the AbiWord WMF
plugin is installed. Note that this only handles WMF images in Word
docs. Most other image types (PNG, JPEG, BMP, etc.) are handled
natively.

Since AbiWord 2.4.1, there have been many Word import improvements and
even more HTML export improvements. I don't know what you'd consider
"perfect" or what particular bugs you encountered.

AbiWord's DOC->HTML conversion surely isn't perfect, but I haven't
encountered anything that comes close to it wrt quality. And that
includes Word itself.

Dom

On 3/19/07, Dmitri <project1@sharedlog.com> wrote:
>
> Hello!
>
> I just couldn't find the answer to this question anywhere - which lib do
> I need in order to be able to convert MS Word docs to html - libwv-1.2.1
> (i think it's the latest libwv) or libwv2?
> they both available on sourceforge but which one do I need?
>
> Also, which version of libwmf do I need in order to be able to also
> extract images from MS Word docs?
>
> PS. I think the version of wv included in abiword-2.4.6 source is way
> too old - the changelog there only goes up to 0.6 version. Does this
> mean I should install the latest libwv first and not use the one
> included with abiword source?
>
> Thank you very much for your reply.
> P.S. A couple of years ago I tried to use AbiCommand to convert Word
> Docs to html it worked satisfactory but not perfect. Back then I was
> using 2.4.1 and 2.4.2
> I read that there has been many improvements in exporting MS WORD,
> WordPerfect and OpenDocument
>
>
>
>

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