Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Full Text Issue Listing |
Summary: | Lotus WordPro file compatibility | ||
---|---|---|---|
Product: | Writer | Reporter: | 9point9 <ed.holness> |
Component: | open-import | Assignee: | AOO issues mailing list <issues> |
Status: | CONFIRMED --- | QA Contact: | |
Severity: | Trivial | ||
Priority: | P3 | CC: | issues, oo, stp, t.c.black |
Version: | OOo 1.1 | ||
Target Milestone: | --- | ||
Hardware: | All | ||
OS: | All | ||
Issue Type: | ENHANCEMENT | Latest Confirmation in: | --- |
Developer Difficulty: | --- |
Description
9point9
2004-08-31 12:47:43 UTC
reassignd to BH. I have a member of my team working on this now - we'll try to get it into 2.0 This is a repeat of issue 11215. Hi Michael, Have you got any update on this or were the ressources required elsewhere ? Alex Sure; we came up with some code that does some of the work here. Unfortunately the LWP file format is not only undocumented, horribly convoluted, broken, inextensible, with no sane framing structure etc. :-) But it's also uncharacteristically nasty wrt. writing an importer. Nevertheless - we have some code that'll import at least the plain text from many LWP files. There are also some pointers to style information there, but we didn't unwind exactly how the style table is encoded unfortunately. I guess someone needs to review the code. Code review won't be done by QA... MRU->AMA: please share this in DEV. Grief - it's been a long time; so - it turns out about the best we can do is grab the plain text. We did some more investigation that gave us a style/format index into a table, but ... the format is twisted beyond belief and most attempts to discover even the overall structure fall down in a mess. Anyhow - the patches are: http://go-oo.org/ooo-build/patches/src680/lwp-detect.diff http://go-oo.org/ooo-build/patches/src680/lwp-parse.diff http://go-oo.org/ooo-build/patches/src680/lwp-build.diff Unfortunately - no documentation at all on the format is forthcoming from IBM. Hello, Lotus WordPro has a huge user base. I believe that many would migrate to OO if they could. Thanks! |