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<title>KOffice filters status: MSWRITE FILTER</title>
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KOffice filters status: <i>MSWRITE FILTER</i>
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<font size="-1"><b>
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<A HREF="#import">Import</A> |
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<A HREF="#export">Export</A>
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<BR><BR><BR>
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<center><a NAME="import"></a></center>
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<A HREF="#START"><font size="-1"><b>Up</b></font></A>
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<center><b><i><font size="+1">
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Import from MS WinWrite to KWord<BR>
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<td VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="1%" NOWRAP><b><font size="+1">Last update</font></b></td>
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<td>$Date: 2004-05-18 13:20:54 +0200 (Tue, 18 May 2004) $</td>
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<td VALIGN=TOP><b><font size="+1">Features</font></b></td>
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<td><b>Imports almost everything except OLE from MS WinWrite (3.0 & 3.1) documents</b> <br>
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- Character formatting (fonts, bold, italic, underline, superscript, subscript, "(page)" numbering) <br>
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- Optional/Soft Hyphenation <br>
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- Paragraph formatting (alignment, linespacing, indentation, tabulation) <br>
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- Paragraphs with multiple newlines <br>
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- Pagebreaking (at the start or end of the line and on the next line) <br>
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- Images (Standard WMFs, monochrome BMPs, position from left margin) <br>
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- Character Set Conversion <br>
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<br>
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- Headers & Footers (including whether or not they are printed on first page) <br>
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- Page formatting (margins, positioning of headers & footers, page numbers starting from any number) <br>
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<td VALIGN=TOP><b><font size="+1">Todo</font></b></td>
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- Accept Image Sizes for certain documents not created by Write <br>
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- Fix Character Set Conversion which doesn't always seem to work<br>
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- OLE <br>
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- Fix a highly unusual bug: creating the dialog using dynamic memory allocation crashes KWord (or sometimes just even enabling the dialog causes a crash) <br>
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- Fix any remaining issues that can't be easily resolved at the time of writing and/or require changes to KWord <br>
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(see file <a href="IMPERFECT">IMPERFECT</a>)
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<td VALIGN=TOP><b><font size="+1">History<br>(Detailed)</font></b></td>
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<b> Version 0.5 (31 January 2003): KOffice 1.3 </b> <br>
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- portable rewrite using <a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/libmswrite/">LibMSWrite</a> <br>
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- tabstops are now the same size as Write's: 1/2 inch (36pts) <br>
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- more accurate scaled image sizes <br>
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- change to "At Least" linespacing <br>
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<b> Version 0.3-2 (starting 4 May 2002): KOffice 1.2 Release (as well as all pre-releases > Beta2) </b> <br>
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- page numbers starting from any number <br>
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- optional hyphenation <br>
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- paragraphs with multiple newlines <br>
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- major bug fixes: pageBreak at start of line, fontTable terminated by 0 numDataBytes <br>
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- character set conversion <br>
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- ported to new filter storageFile API <br>
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- dialog with Encoding and Import Options (disabled due to stability problems) <br>
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<b> Version 0.3-1: KOffice 1.2 Beta1 </b> <br>
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- fixed mswritelib.cc crash on files with an unusual font table <br>
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- emulates image position from left margin by using paragraph indents <br>
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- WMFs now render correctly in KWord (thanks to Lorthiois Thierry); note that only TQWMF code was changed <br>
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- gcc 2.95.3 internal error workaround <br>
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- more *.desktop fixes <br>
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<br>
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<b> Version 0.3 (7 Jan 2002): Put into CVS for porting to new filter architecture </b> <br>
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- imports nearly everything: now has full character, paragraph, page formatting <br>
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- experimental importing of images (Standard WMF + monochrome BMP) <br>
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- significant performance enhancements (new MSWriteLib + less XML output) <br>
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- emulates Write's unusual linespacing using OFFSETS tag <br>
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- includes filtertest.wri to test filter <br>
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- corrections to Makefile.am <br>
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- corrections/changes to *.desktop files (thanks to Werner Trobin) <br>
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<br>
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<b> Version 0.2 (4 Dec 2001): First stable release </b> <br>
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- reads documents reliably <br>
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- can read text with full character formatting plus partial paragraph formatting <br>
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- nice and modular as it uses the new MSWriteView library (MSWriteLib) <br>
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<br>
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<b> Version 0.1 (7 Oct 2001): Initial release </b> <br>
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- the underlying code to read in the format is there but the filter can only do plain text with alignment
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<td VALIGN=TOP><b><font size="+1">Authors</font></b></td>
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<a href="mailto:dang@kde.org">Clarence Dang</a>
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<td VALIGN=TOP><b><font size="+1">Links</font></b></td>
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<a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/libmswrite/">LibMSWrite</a>: Portable library that imports and exports Write documents, used by this filter <br>
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<a href="IMPERFECT">How to Perfect the Filter</a>: problems with the filter that are/were hard to fix at the time of writing <br>
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<a href="ROADMAP">Development Roadmap</a>: where development is heading <br>
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<a href="http://webcvs.kde.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/~checkout~/kofficetests/documents/import/mswrite/filtertest.wri?content-type=application/x-mswrite">Test File</a>
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<td VALIGN=TOP><b><font size="+1">Progress report </font></b></td>
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<td>This filter is nearing completion and OLE may be implemented sometime in the future.
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<BR>Export from KWord to MS WinWrite<BR><BR>
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<td VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="1%" NOWRAP><b><font size="+1">Last update</font></b></td>
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<td>$Date: 2004-05-18 13:20:54 +0200 (Tue, 18 May 2004) $</td>
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<td VALIGN=TOP><b><font size="+1">Features</font></b></td>
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<td><b>Exports text, images and a useful amount of formatting to MS WinWrite 3.0 documents </b> <br>
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This import/export filter pair is almost "symmetric" i.e. export (import (f)) = f. <br>
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It can export everything that the import filter can import except Page Layout. <br>
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Images of various types (e.g. BMP, JPEG, WMF, PNG) are supported. <br>
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Tables are simply dumped out as paragraphs. <br>
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Basic list support. <br>
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<td VALIGN=TOP><b><font size="+1">Todo</font></b></td>
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<td>Page Layout<br>
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OLE <br>
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<td VALIGN=TOP><b><font size="+1">History</font></b></td>
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<td><b> Version 0.5 (31 January 2003): KOffice 1.3</b> <br>
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- portable export filter based on <a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/libmswrite/">LibMSWrite</a> <br>
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- improved inline image and table support (20 February 2003)<br>
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<td VALIGN=TOP><b><font size="+1">Authors</font></b></td>
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<a href="mailto:dang@kde.org">Clarence Dang</a>
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<td VALIGN=TOP><b><font size="+1">Links</font></b></td>
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<a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/libmswrite/">LibMSWrite</a>: Portable library that imports and exports Write documents, used by this filter <br>
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</td>
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</tr>
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<td VALIGN=TOP><b><font size="+1">Progress report </font></b></td>
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<td>This filter is currently quite slow and is being improved...
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