The libwpd team have been doing an amazing job with the filter. If I
can help bring the Word Perfect filter into OOo, let me know how I can help.
Thanks to everyone for all the hard work. I know how much went into this.
William Lachance wrote:
Hi,
I'm the (co-author) of libwpd and the one who's responsible for the
wpd->OOo filters (both integrated and standalone).
I don't see any reason to think that a WordPerfect filter won't be in
the next major release of OOo (after 1.1). The feature coverage of
libwpd is good and the UNO filter frontend work (which I worked on last
fall) feels pretty solid to me.
My strategy has always been to release a standalone integrated filter
for testing first (using the OOo SDK), merge with the release build
second. In the past, the first step has been held up due to problems
with the SDK and the general touchiness of target platforms on Linux
(C++ ABI issues, incompatible libraries, etc.). This prompted the
development of wpd2sxw (the command-line wpd -> OOo filter).
The SDK issues seem to be mostly resolved in the 1.1 release (major
props to whoever is responsible for the new SDK packaging + deployment
model). Now that we're over that hurdle, I plan on releasing a
standalone integrated filter for (at least) Ximian OOo on RH9 and
(hopefully) Win32 OOo shortly after the next major release of libwpd
(which is coming really soon). After people have banged on that for a
while, we can consider integrating libwpd and the filter component into
the main build.
Patches, bug reports, sample documents, etc. are, of course, always
welcome.
HTH,
--
Scott Carr
OpenOffice.org
Documentation Maintainer
http://documentation.openoffice.org
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