Re: RTF export

Gary Thomas (gdt@linuxppc.org)
Fri, 07 May 1999 16:48:58 +0100 (BST)

On 07-May-99 Paul Rohr wrote:
> Gary,
>
> Thanks for offering. Having great import/export compatibility for other
> word processor formats is very important to this project -- kind of like
> hardware drivers for the Linux kernel. :-)
>
> Peter Arnold <petera@intrinsica.co.uk> started the effort to create an RTF
> importer, but so far as we know, nobody's started work on the exporter yet.
>
> As you probably know, Maxwell and Ted would be two great sources of GPL code
> for handling RTF. My recollection is that one of the Maxwell maintainers
> reads this list, so you might be able to get some help there if you get lost
> in that code.
>
> http://www.eeyore-mule.demon.co.uk/
> http://www.nllgg.nl/Ted/
>
> If you have any questions about how to interpret our import / export APIs,
> let us know. The existing examples should be pretty clear -- Jeff's just
> that good -- but we're always happy to provide more information and
> documentation to people writing code.
>
> We're looking forward to your contribution!
>

Thanks for the pointers. I'll look into them and let you know my plans.

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