Subject: Re: Abiword 0.9.0 Word filter: Problems with the tables
From: Alan (horkana@tcd.ie)
Date: Fri Aug 03 2001 - 07:36:36 CDT
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>The first thing I have been willing to check was the compatibility with
>Microsoft Word documents (The only thing my boss is really interested to
>know before we switch). I took 2 differents documents (A report with
>tables and my CV with a lot of tables, boxes and colors...) and I tried.
>The documents were written with Word97.
>It seems that AbiWord still have problems with tables and bordered and
>colored area in a word document. I can send you the CV if you want, so
>you can try my yourself.
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Sorry, no tables yet. Table are planned for post 1.0, the developers
are very concerned about doing tables properly the first time. Tables
are a much requested feature. Anything you can do to help move the
overall developement along would be appreciated, bug reporting, keeping
your favourite language up to date, or even better contributing code
patches and bugfixes.
Until then i suggest you try out StarOffice/OpenOffice from Sun which is
full of features although not as easy for MSOffice users to adapt to. I
been told KWrite part of KOffice is very good, but i have not used it
myself.
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