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Re: Word translators for KOffice
by Techios on Tuesday 06/Feb/2001, @00:36

IMHO filters should be one of the Top priorities of the Koffice project. Even if Koffice is better than M$office it will NOT prevail if it doesnt have *excelent* filtersl. Filters that import more than 97% percent of the formating of the word/excel document and vice versa. People are enslaved under M$office and they can't get out! Help them do this!

Also from what i've seen Kword kicks ass over Abiword but Gnumeric kicks ass over Kspread. What could a part of the KDE people do is take the code and port it to Qt and Kparts, renaming it Kalculus (or Knumeric) and making it part of the Koffice project (having 2 spreadsheets aint so bad, Gnome people have two office suites) Since Gnumeric is GPLed there is no *ethical* problem, because that's the point of the GPL, freely re-using software.

just my 0.02 Euro :-)

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Re: Word translators for KOffice
by Richard Bos on Tuesday 06/Feb/2001, @04:01

I full agree with the submitter of this mailing. At work I'm using kde, but for the office part I must rely on other applications like staroffice or since recently xlhtml see http://www.xlhtml.org (have a look at this apllication it works quite well)

The MS import filter are despearedly needed, and should be able to process/display pictures as well.

To my opinion export filters to MS format are not important. One never know whether a native MS application crashes on a document created with non MS apps and it needs a lot of energy as well. It's better to distribute documents in ascii, pdf or html formatted docs.

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export filters ARE necessary
by Moritz Moeller-Herrmann on Tuesday 06/Feb/2001, @07:38

At least where I work, kword needs an rtf or simple doc export to be viable. Some text format that supports FOOTNOTES (unlike html) and simple textformatting as well as tables to exchange a working draft of a document.

Ohterwise I could work on a text here, but never give it to someone else to continue my work.
(Unless they use kword, which I can't and won't force on anyone, to everyone his favorite tool)

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