Subject: Fw: Lotus Wordpro format convertor?
From: Henry Norton (hnorton@vnet.net)
Date: Fri May 04 2001 - 08:15:19 CDT
As another opinion, I would concur that going through RTF is preferable to
having support for converting from many formats. Stability and generality is
better than many special options -- each of which may contain implementation
errors.
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From: "John H. Raines, Jr." <raines@one.net>
To: <abiword-user@abisource.com>
Sent: Friday, May 04, 2001 8:49 AM
Subject: Fwd: Lotus Wordpro format convertor?
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> On 5/4/01 at 5:07 PM Nicholas Lee <nic-lists@plumtree.co.nz> wrote:
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> Is there any likelyhood of a lotus wordpro convertor for abiword?
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> I'm using it at present for reading doc format and its great. Once I move
towards replacing my windows desktops I'll have probably a thousand or so
wordpro documents to convert over.
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> Nicholas
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> It would seem that it would be nice to add this after Ver. 1 (ie an
enhancement). However, to cover all formats is an intimidating task that
may be more than can be handled with available resources. Maybe ever.
Making RTF robust may still be the best bet. The cost of converting 1000
documents vs free, stable, useful software doesn't seem all the great.
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> Regards,
> J. Raines
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