dear all, I wrote and maintain a few KWord filters and would like to share couple of interesting things:
(1) Months ago there're some threads here discussing about AmiPro filter for Abiword. Well, I have started to reverse engineer the format and even write AmiPro filter (import and export) for KWord. Along with my little documentation, I think this could be served as a basis for Abiword's AmiPro filter. Of course, helps are really appreciated. (2) PalmDoc filter in Abiword is not finished yet. And sometimes it's broken, notably the export filter. Feel free to see KWord's version for complete PDB access and implementation of PalmDoc text compression. (3) Now WRT WordPerfect import filter. In KWord's WP filter, I have compiled few lists to map almost all WP international character to its Unicode equivalent. Obviously, this could be used in Abiword as well. In addition, with Abi's WP filter framework, also it should be easy to support WP version 5.x. Had anyone interested in KWord's filters source code, take a look at http://lxr.kde.org/source/koffice/filters/kword (or maybe get KOffice tarball and compile :-) I hope we can see more cooperation in the near future... Thanks. Regards, Ariya Hidayat www.advogato.org/person/ariya
