From: Julien Olivier (julo@altern.org)
Date: Mon Sep 01 2003 - 05:07:36 EDT
On Mon, 2003-09-01 at 08:31, Hubert Figuiere wrote:
> On Sun, 2003-08-31 at 13:02, Julien Olivier wrote:
>
> > - I have tried to open a few DOC files sent to me by my boss and, while
> > most of them were almost perfectly converted, those containing diagrams
> > (I guess there is a drawing tool in MS Word) didn't work: the diagrams
> > didn't appear at all.
>
> The problem is more tricky than it sounds, because Word does things
> behind your back without telling. If the diagram is an embedded object
> (from the OLE point of view) then you are SOL. This is what happen when
> diagrams comes from Visio, Micrografx Designer and problem any other
> Windows program that do that. One of the thing that make this more
> complicated is that most of the time you also need the original program
> (at least for Micrografx Designer this happened as a Word doc created on
> Windows did not contain the pictures when open on Mac because Word on
> Mac did not know what to do). You don't dream of that feature. You have
> nightmares !!
>
Well, in my precise case, the diagram is almost perfectly displayed in
OOO. So I guess it doesn't depend on any external program. Do you want
me to send the document anywhere (it's not top secret but I wouldn't
like it to finish everywhere though) ?
>
> > - Still related to the former question, is there or will there be a
> > drawing tool in Abiword ? I mean something to draw basic geometrical
> > shapes and arrows.
>
> I don't think we'll do that. It is a word processor, not a nuclear
> plant. But we'll add sometime in the future embedding capabilities to
> allow seamlessly edit diagram in an external tool. We already have
> plug-ins for that to open bitmap images in GIMP.
>
That sounds good to me.
> [...]
>
> > - I noticed that there is no function to create a table of contents
> > automatically. Are there any plans for that in the future ? I think
> > that's a must-have for any serious word processor. Well, at least I use
> > it very much :)
>
> http://bugzilla.abisource.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1950
>
Yes, that's the bug I was looking for. Thank you.
> [...]
>
> Hub
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