Re: AbiWord 0.7 and Office 97 format documents

Robert Sievers (bob@abisource.com)
Tue, 13 Jul 1999 09:38:38 -0500


At 11:21 PM 7/7/99 +1000, Hilton Travis wrote:
>Please have a look at the attached file. It is a Microsoft Word 2000 file,
>which is "supposed" to be the same format as Word 97. As you can see, when
>opened in either MS Word 97 or MS Word 2000, the formatting is quite
>different to when opened in AbiWord. The main problems are lack of table
>support, centred text and headers/footers.

Since AbiWord doesn't yet support tables, and headers/footers are in
progress, much of this formatting will be lost. There isn't much we can do
about that until the development process accelerates.

>supporting AbiWord - I can beta test for you, however am unable to offer
>coding ability. From what I have seen, AbiWord looks quite nice, functions
>quite well, and needs a bit of work in some areas.

Beta testing would help a lot. Look for bugs, and when you find one,
search bugzilla to see if it is already in there. More and more people
from the list are then applying a patch.

By the way, the current bug count is 134.

Robert Sievers
Open Source Evangelist



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