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Re: OdfConverter

by Fridrich Strba-2 :: Rate this Message:

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Andrew Ziem wrote:
~ Yes, I noticed how the integration works, and I appreciate its
| simplicity.  I am disappointed the preprocessing/postprocessing is not
| yet (or ever will be?) integrated into the mainstream OpenOffice.org.
| It would be a solution to provide additional support such as Microsoft
| Works word processor .wps which I developed in libwps.  Fridrich helped
| and provided integration for upstream, but it was not accepted there for
| various reasons.   As an alternative, it would have been relatively easy
| to add .wps support as an extension the same way as odf-converter if the
| pre-/post-processing support were upstream.

Andrew, you know, that if you wanted to make the filter an extension, it
should not be very difficult. You just compare what does the
STABLE-0-1-0 branch of wpg2odg, where I used to build a plugin wpg
importer. But be aware that as long as you release something, there will
be users and they will expect someone to fix bugs they find. Are you
ready to do that? Do you have the resources? Maintaining an OOo plugin
might be quite a work from my own experience.

Cheers

Fridrich
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