On 08/4/04 9:49 AM, "Peter Hinchliffe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> A couple of meetings ago I presented a demo of the Arabic word > processor "Mellel". I expressed the opinion that although it was > showing lots of promise it was not ready for prime time because it > could not handle Word files. Well, all that has changed. > > Mellel 1.7.5 can now read and write Word files when running under > Panther. I suspect it's using Panther's own built-in routines to do > this, so the word-reading capabilities are possibly no greater than > that of Text Edit, but that's OK for now, because there are an > additional 35 significant improvements which have been made to the > program. The new list manager (ie, for creating bulleted lists) is > superb (take that, Microsoft!) and worth the download for this feature > alone. > > Check it out on http://www.versiontracker.com. > I just opened a 2.1 MB fairly complex Word file in this new version. After a little bit of converting (not very long), the document opened but, - table content was there but not formatted in tables - the Table of Contents and Index were there but again not formatted correctly. - style formatting seemed alright but the styles themselves weren't imported. All in all, pretty impressive. Larry
