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by hackorama on Tuesday 28/Aug/2001, @20:20

Congratulations to KOfficers !

Since KOffice is now stable, the next priority should be to get filters working. For real world usage you really need .doc support.

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Re: good work!
by Rk on Wednesday 29/Aug/2001, @08:50

Actually, getting someone to work on Krayon ought to at least be worth thinking about (no, I can't, I have almost no skill in C++ whatsoever)

It is unlikely any open source projects will be able to properly read MS Office formats: they're complicated, and use Windows-native technologies like OLE2.

Instead, the focus should be making KOffice more functional, faster & more stable.

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Re: good work!
by James E. LaBarre on Wednesday 29/Aug/2001, @09:09

Won't help me much, all my files at home are WordPerfect (5.1 & 6.x formats) documents (plus various QuattroPro files). At work it's SmartSuite (although I don't expect to need to convert those anytime soon).

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Re: good work!
by Fred Thiele on Wednesday 29/Aug/2001, @12:01

Yep...I agree, filetes are a must...how about .lwp support? (ya know, lotus word pro?)

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Re: good work!
by All_troll_no_tech on Wednesday 29/Aug/2001, @14:28

I think focusing on filters is important but
premature. Once e.g. KWord gets feature
parity with Word (XP or whatever then current
version would be), then it makes sense to try to
translate to and from Word format. At this
point you can't recover all formatting
properly anyways. For instance, without
hyphenation even plain text Word document will
not have proper formatting when imported into
KWord.

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Re: good work!
by Rui Prior on Wednesday 29/Aug/2001, @16:26

For real world usage we need a windows version (also free, at least as in beer). This way, windows users will at least take a look at it (since it costs nothing), and if it's good, maybe they'll forget about M$ Office.

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