[Scribus] New Word importer

[PLinnell]

On Tuesday 21 February 2006 19:49, Christoph Sch?fer wrote:
> Am Dienstag, 21. Februar 2006 19:36 schrieb PLinnell:
> > On Tuesday 21 February 2006 18:58, Christoph Sch?fer wrote:
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > today I installed a current cvs with the new Word importer and
> > > also antiword to make it work. Distro is SuSE 10.0. Antiword is
> > > installed under $home/bin. Now, doc is in the file list for
> > > text import, but I can't import a single Word file (text frames
> > > remain empty).
> > >
> > > Under my SuSE 9.3 antiword is in usr/bin and everything works
> > > fine.
> > >
> > > Any ideas on what's going wrong.
> > >
> > > I also noticed that the Word importer doesn't recognise
> > > paragraph styles as the sxw/odt importers do. Is this a
> > > limitation of antiword?
> > >
> > >
> > > Cheers,
> > >
> > > Christoph
>
> Hi Peter,
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > As soon as www.scribus has one more issue sorted, I will have
> > Suse 10.0 rpms for antiword which do work.
>
> Thanks for that. It's not really important for me since I am using
> OO.o anyway, but probably for others  ...
>
> > The idea of antiword is to strip all the style stuff out and get
> > plain text. So, OO is better if the styles are important.
>
> Hmm, so antiword must be regarded as an interim solution? I noticed
> on the bugtracker that the PDB importer has used some code from
> AbiWord. Wouldn't it be possible to do this for DOC as well (And
> WPD)? AbiWord and KWord are out there, and the importer doesn't
> need all the features, only text formatting and paragraph styles.
>

Like everything, just need time and motivation :-)

Peter