Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 17880
support for more office suites and formats
Last modified: 2013-08-07 14:41:16 UTC
Hi It would be great if future versions of Open Office could read and save into more formats like Lotus smart suite and Corel Office. But more important it would be great to read and save Koffice documents. After all this is another GPL office so adding support for this should be easy. It is ironic that currently the only shared format is the ms-office format. Finally it would be really usefull to export to tex and latex. I find that Open Office has the best math formula editor so there has to be an option to export to latex.
Thank you for supporting OOo and for posting your bug here. The bug you have filed should actually be broken down into several separate bugs (read Lotus Smart Suite, save in Lotus Smart Suite, read Corel, save in Corel, etc.). There are already such bugs filed for Lotus, Corel, KWord, and Latex (and AbiWord, for that matter). There is active development on Corel import/export filters. I don't know about the Lotus, KWord, and Latex. The component for this issue should be changed to "word processor" ("www" is just for web site issues). Issue type should be changed to "enhancement". The issue should then be closed as either "invalid" (since it encompasses several disparate issues) or be marked as duplicate as one of the more specific import/export filter requests, such as issue 3403 (Latex filter request).
I did some changes as asked Yet by changing the component into word processor i don't want to exclude the other components of open office. Suites like kword and corel Office don't have only a word processor. They have a spreadsheet, a presenter and other components. I would like from the future releases of openoffice to be able to open and save into every format. The writer should be able to read and save into kword format and the calc to read and save into whatever format. As i stated before Koffice is open sourced so you can take the code and add support for it quite easily. But should i reassign this issue to the owner of the selected subcomponent?
Reassign issue to owner of selected subcomponent
Hi i am reassigning this to you. You can read the history of this issue. I believee that it it would be very useful to add latex and koffice filters to openoffice. The latter doesn't only include adding kword filters to the writer but also every koffice filter to openoffice (kpresenter to Impress, kspread to calc etc). Koffice is GPLed so it's going to be easy to add koffice support to openoffice. Openoffice should be able to read and save into koffice format.
Thank you for changing the compoenent. The proper way to handle this bug is to break it down into chunks. As i mentioned, there are already bugs open for OOo Writer import and export filters for KWord, Latex, WordPerfect, SmartSuite, and AbiWord. So, as a word processor bug this issue is entirely redundant. So, this bug should be closed as either invalid or as a duplicate of one of the bugs i mentioned. If there are specific filters you want for the other OOo components, you need to file those as separate bugs, like this: - add KSpread export filter - add KSpread import filter - add KPresenter export filter - add KPresenter import filter When doing this it is important to search for duplicates first, as some of these requests have probably already been filed. Just to put this in perspective, since the KOffice file formats aren't very prevelant, getting OOo to add import and export filters for them will probably require someone from the community with the requisite skills taking them on as a personal or small group project. This is what is happening with the WordPerfect filter effort.
thank you for your instructions. I plan to file separate issues as you instructed. I believe that koffice support should be relatively easy since koffice is released under gpl and this will allow openoffice developers to copy koffice code.
SBA: Closed.