Import from MS WinWrite to KWord
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| Last update |
$Date: 2004-05-18 13:20:54 +0200 (Tue, 18 May 2004) $ |
| Features |
Imports almost everything except OLE from MS WinWrite (3.0 & 3.1) documents
- Character formatting (fonts, bold, italic, underline, superscript, subscript, "(page)" numbering)
- Optional/Soft Hyphenation
- Paragraph formatting (alignment, linespacing, indentation, tabulation)
- Paragraphs with multiple newlines
- Pagebreaking (at the start or end of the line and on the next line)
- Images (Standard WMFs, monochrome BMPs, position from left margin)
- Character Set Conversion
- Headers & Footers (including whether or not they are printed on first page)
- Page formatting (margins, positioning of headers & footers, page numbers starting from any number)
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| Todo |
- Accept Image Sizes for certain documents not created by Write
- Fix Character Set Conversion which doesn't always seem to work
- OLE
- Fix a highly unusual bug: creating the dialog using dynamic memory allocation crashes KWord (or sometimes just even enabling the dialog causes a crash)
- Fix any remaining issues that can't be easily resolved at the time of writing and/or require changes to KWord
(see file IMPERFECT)
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History
(Detailed) |
Version 0.5 (31 January 2003): KOffice 1.3
- portable rewrite using LibMSWrite
- tabstops are now the same size as Write's: 1/2 inch (36pts)
- more accurate scaled image sizes
- change to "At Least" linespacing
Version 0.3-2 (starting 4 May 2002): KOffice 1.2 Release (as well as all pre-releases > Beta2)
- page numbers starting from any number
- optional hyphenation
- paragraphs with multiple newlines
- major bug fixes: pageBreak at start of line, fontTable terminated by 0 numDataBytes
- character set conversion
- ported to new filter storageFile API
- dialog with Encoding and Import Options (disabled due to stability problems)
Version 0.3-1: KOffice 1.2 Beta1
- fixed mswritelib.cpp crash on files with an unusual font table
- emulates image position from left margin by using paragraph indents
- WMFs now render correctly in KWord (thanks to Lorthiois Thierry); note that only TQWMF code was changed
- gcc 2.95.3 internal error workaround
- more *.desktop fixes
Version 0.3 (7 Jan 2002): Put into CVS for porting to new filter architecture
- imports nearly everything: now has full character, paragraph, page formatting
- experimental importing of images (Standard WMF + monochrome BMP)
- significant performance enhancements (new MSWriteLib + less XML output)
- emulates Write's unusual linespacing using OFFSETS tag
- includes filtertest.wri to test filter
- corrections to Makefile.am
- corrections/changes to *.desktop files (thanks to Werner Trobin)
Version 0.2 (4 Dec 2001): First stable release
- reads documents reliably
- can read text with full character formatting plus partial paragraph formatting
- nice and modular as it uses the new MSWriteView library (MSWriteLib)
Version 0.1 (7 Oct 2001): Initial release
- the underlying code to read in the format is there but the filter can only do plain text with alignment
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| Authors |
Clarence Dang
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| Links |
LibMSWrite: Portable library that imports and exports Write documents, used by this filter
How to Perfect the Filter: problems with the filter that are/were hard to fix at the time of writing
Development Roadmap: where development is heading
Test File
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| Progress report |
This filter is nearing completion and OLE may be implemented sometime in the future.
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