That's great to hear. Sorry for not being up to date on this. I have
been working in other areas and just noticed William's email.
Dave Richards wrote:
All-
As far as I know WP support is fully integrated into OpenOffice
2.0. We have been running that release in beta form for a while now
and WP files are coming in perfectly. They actually list it as a
'feature' on their web site:
http://www.openoffice.org/dev_docs/features/2.0/index.html
We converted all of our internal documents from WP-->Openoffice in
2003, but still get them in email from other organizations and they
open perfectly in 2.0.
Dave
On Fri, 2005-07-08 at 08:32 -0500, Scott Carr wrote:
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,
>
>
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Scott Carr
OpenOffice.org
Documentation Co-Lead
http://documentation.openoffice.org
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