Le 23 avr. 2014 à 10:11, Jay Philips <[email protected]> a écrit :

> On 04/23/2014 11:00 AM, alonso wrote:
>> 
>> Hello,
>> 
>> Le 22 avr. 2014 à 16:38, Jay Philips <[email protected] 
>> <mailto:[email protected]>> a écrit :
>> 
>>> …..
>> We can try and/or see if he/she/they want to participate to the Document 
>> Liberation project…
>> 
>> In fact, I begin to work on some WDB files and their structures seem quite 
>> similar to the WKS structures :-)
>> Of course, some new zones exist to code reports and probably forms, 
>> 1D-formula… , but I begin to be able to
>> extract some of the database content ( which is what I want to convert as I 
>> can only convert these files in spreadsheet ), …
>> 
> 
> When i was checking around yesterday, all of the conversion methods for wdb 
> files seem to all convert to word or excel, which i found strange.
> 
        If they only allow to retrieve the database content, converting the 
document in Excel can be ok.
In Word, they can probably create a table to store the database’s content but I 
fear that the document
will be illisible if the database contains too many fields or records :-~

>>> But it would be nice to have guidelines of the samples you need.
>> In general, I mainly want to have as many test files as possible. Ie. I use 
>> some scripts to detect unexpected
>> content and I check by hand that some conversions are «  good » or not ( but 
>> as I am working on so many formats in
>> libmwaw, I may miss something ).
> 
> Well when i was mentioning sample guides, i was more focused on new formats 
> that havent been started as yet so the initial samples cover most of the 
> functionality found in that type of application. Of course after that, as 
> many test files as possible is the way to go. :)
        Ok.
-- 
Amicalement,
        Laurent




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