Am Dienstag, 21. Februar 2006 20:15 schrieb Petr Van?k: > On Tuesday 21 February 2006 19:49, Christoph Sch?fer wrote: > > Hmm, so antiword must be regarded as an interim solution? I noticed on > > the bugtracker that the PDB importer has used some code from AbiWord. > > Wouldn't it be possible to do this for DOC as well (And WPD)? AbiWord and > > KWord are out there, and the importer doesn't need all the features, only > > text formatting and paragraph styles.
Hi Petr, > hello Christoph, > I'm looking into it. Thanks very much for your efforts! Highly appreciated! > Esp. for Abi's stuff. It looks more "transformable" > into Scribus than koffice surprisingly. The PDB importer was work for 4 > hours only (well, I'm not so good programmer propably) just because PDB is > very simple document format. You can imagine the complexity of DOC - we > should to write Scribus wrapper for a lot of binary pieces of strange > unknowns. > > Personally I prefer styles enabled importer too. But it can be way to lost > the time for more important bugs mainly (yep, large patches come these > days). Just FYI: I have opened a Wiki page with a list of file formats that might be of interest for use with Scribus (import/export): http://wiki.scribus.net/index.php/File_formats_that_should_be_supported_by_Scribus_%28wish_list%29 > > p. Cheers, Christoph
