How about a library for MS office export/import?

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How about a library for MS office export/import?
by a.c. on Saturday 24/Mar/2007, @17:02

It strikes me that if somebody comes up with a library that can do import/export for
1. Ms Word
2. MS Excell
3. MS PowerPoint
4. MS visio
5. MS project

then it can be used by ALL of the oss world and perhaps the closed source as well.
If adapted and MS is not able to be imported/exported by ALL of the apps, then it will be considered MS's fault, not the rest of the world. In addition, it will most likely lead to 1 library that is maintained by all of the users and that is pretty powerful.

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Re: How about a library for MS office export/import?
by Universe on Sunday 25/Mar/2007, @06:25

If I remember correctly, a couple of years ago this was about to happen. Werner Trobin, at that time KOffice developer, started designing and implementing a library called wv2, a successor to the library AbiWord uses for MS Word conversions.

However, the project came to a halt when the AbiWord developers decided not to help on the library (as the initially indicated).

So while the idea is all nice and shiny, it actually requires developers working on it.

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Re: How about a library for MS office export/import?
by Boudewijn Rempt on Sunday 25/Mar/2007, @06:54

Yes, and KWord still uses libwv2 -- it's pretty good, actually. Only one kind of image cannot be loaded. The big problem is that KWord 1.x is constitutionally unable to render the document. Mainly because of some difference in design philosophy, but also because of a broken table implementation.

In KOffice 2.0 it will be quite easy for someone who's interested in that kind of thing to write a table shape that works like the text shape but for tables. It can be a completely stand-alone project with a high prestige associated :-).

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