From: Austin Gonyou (austin@digitalroadkill.net)
Date: Mon Mar 18 2002 - 18:46:29 EST
On Mon, 2002-03-18 at 17:38, Hubert Figuiere wrote:
> On Tue, 2002-03-19 at 00:30, Austin Gonyou wrote:
> > If I save a file as MS Word or RTF, then try to read it with something
> > like OpenWriter, OpenWriter crashes immediately.
>
> Unless they tell us what is wrong in our file, then it is an OpenWriter
> bug. Anyway their RTF importer is not really wonderful.
Yes, Much to be desired. Still, .doc is a binary format, and right now
Abiword is saving as RTF1, with .doc extension.
>
> >
> > Looking at the .doc, it shows that it's just RTF, at least it appears so
> > to me.
>
> It is. The .doc saving feature is on illusion that we made to users so
> that they stop asking us for that feature. Writing .doc file is far from
> being on easy task....
>
Office XP/2000 .doc code is available in OpenOffice. :)
> > I'm curious what's going on here. This also goes the same for saving
> > files as .DOC in OpenWriter then re-saving them in abiword.
>
> Sure since we completely rewrite the file.
The point of that is that technically is a one-way conversion, so users
of OpenOffice can't effectively open files from users of AbiWord if
saved as RTF or .doc. I agree, OpenOffice's problem, but also
Abisource's problem since that one-way conversion could break the stream
of functionality in an business environment.
> > However, documents sent to me by other people using word97, or 2000 open
> > just fine in OpenWriter, whereas formatting is usually messed up in
> > Abiword. This goes for RTFs too.
>
> Do they contain table ? Then you've got the answer.
>
Some do, obviously that won't work, but some are just tab driven, and
the difference in font-rendering, etc, seems to cause a big problem.
>
> Hub
Thx.
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