Re: MS word version supported in wvWare or Abiword

Hi Tim,

Yes, AbiWord uses wv.

I assume that you're using wv to convert from DOC into another format.
Maybe it's TXT or HTML.

AbiWord does a much better job at preserving the DOC's semantic
meaning and visual appearance. It's capable of handling things like
TOCs, floating frames, headers, footers, fields, footnotes, and
endnotes. None of which "wvHtml" can do.

-Dom

On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 12:16 PM, Tim Dionne <tdionne@collab.net> wrote:
>
> Thanks Dominic --
>
> Like I asked Marin, how does AbiWord differ from wv? The home page for wv
> says that AbiWord uses wv.
>
> Thanks!
>
>
>
> Dominic Lachowicz wrote:
> The Microsoft Office file formats didn't change, really, from 1997
> until the recent OOXML specification. Because Microsoft cannot yet go
> back in time in order to promote vendor lock-in, wvWare (and thus,
> AbiWord) will continue to handle Office 2003 documents.
>
>
>
> web site, but can't find any official statements about this. I would
> consider using AbiWord to do the straining, but it seems like overkill
> since we don't need to GUI component.
>
> AbiWord is quite adept at doing precisely that. Its import and export
> facilities are really good, as are the number of formats supported.
> AbiWord has a nice command-line mode, and with a bit of hackery, you
> can turn it into a headless server daemon to do conversions for you.
> No GUI need be involved at runtime.
>
> Cheers,
> Dom
>
>

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