Re: MS WORD DOCS issue

--- Dmitri <project1@sharedlog.com> wrote:

>
> Here is the problem I found using abiword 2.4.6
>
> when trying to convert ms word to html using --to=html
> if the file is created in Word 2003, then the program cannot extract
> embedded image, only the text and formatting.
>
> If I use save as in my Word 2003 and save as word 2000 doc, then
> abiword
> can convert it to html including extracting embedded images.
>
> The strange thing is that wvHtml program does not have this
> limitation
> and can convert Word 2003 with embedded images to html. The problem
> with
> wvHtml is that it does not preserve formatting as well as abiword.
>
> I think the problem must be in libgsf since the error message always
> mentions libgsf and also wvHtml does not use libgsf as far as I know.
>
> Whould it be possible for abiword NOT to use libgsf when loading ms
> word
> docs?
>
> Isn't libgsf doing the same thing as wv - deals with msole?
>

If it's a positioned image (i.e. not an inline one), it won't be
converted to HTML: http://bugzilla.abisource.com/show_bug.cgi?id=9221

 
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Received on Tue Mar 20 04:10:33 2007