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Re: Status of Wv2 ?
by Charles de Miramon on Tuesday 26/Aug/2003, @14:08

Thanks for answering...

If the RTF export filter is going to be the future path for exporting to MSWord. Could KOffice developers implement the 'Abiword trick' : id est having a .doc exporting filter whih is a rtf file with a .doc extension. I guess, it is rather easy to code and will make life easier to users that don't know what is RTF (or Rich Text Format)and don't want to know.

Focusing on the RTF export filter is definitely the best option. (Power)-users can much more easily create test cases, look the exported rtf code, try to understand where it went wrong and help the developers. Something you can't do as easily with the binary .doc format.

Cheers,
Charles

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Re: Status of Wv2 ?
by Nicolas GOUTTE on Wednesday 27/Aug/2003, @04:14

RTF as .doc had been discussed in the past but never implemented

Have a nice day!

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Abiword Trick RTF renamed to DOC
by Alan H on Thursday 28/Aug/2003, @09:13

I should point out that the "Abiword Trick" has good precedent.

Microsoft Wordpad does not export Binary .DOC either, it only exports RTF renamed to .doc

I also recally Wordperfect and Microsoft using the .doc file extension fairly arbitrarily for various formats including Text and RTF.
There are so many version of DOC anyway that quite quickly you need a riguorous file detection algorithm.

While I am here cheerleading for Abiword I may as well mention that it would be really great if KDE users could take a look at making Abiword blend in better with KDE, I am reliably informed that Abiword follows the freedesktop.org icon specification and should be able to use KDE icons when run in KDE.

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