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Re: OOO Filters
by Boudewijn Rempt on Wednesday 12/Oct/2005, @04:03

I'm sorry to have to say that the OOo filter code is still the same convoluted unintelligible mess that appears to directly poke stuff into the internal OOo datastructures that is has always been -- so, no, unless you want the type of solution where KOffice uses OOo automation to first convert an MS document to an OpenDocument document and then load that. But that would, of course, be horribly slow and hackish.

We need better filters, but that's one thing that's nearly impossible to achieve in ones copious spare time; you really have a couple of full-time people for that.

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Re: OOO Filters
by MandrakeUser on Wednesday 12/Oct/2005, @04:31

That's sad to hear. Hopefully they will consider cleaning up and refactoring for 3.0. There is a general consensus that both their code and their build system needs a major rewrite if they are to succeed in the long term. Just building OO is , by itself, a challenge. Not to mention porting, or trying to hack code into it.

The alternative would be to try to coordinate in FreeDesktop.org , or maybe within oasis, to write (maybe roll up sleeves and try to extract it from the OO mess) stand-alone filters (from/to different formats to/from oasis). Oh well, wishfull thinking. If people from KDE, Gnome, freedesktop.org, etc. pull together maybe this is attainable. I wish I had some time to help coding ...

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