Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: no answers to my question

Hi :)
It might be worth putting forwards as a major project for next year's "Google Summer of Code".  The 
topics for this year have been selected  already.  Last year someone wrote filters to import Visio 
formats and was keen to extend the filters to cope with other versions of MS Office.  

A work-around might be to run LibreOffice alongside those other Office Suites and copy&paste 
letters/documents/books as and when but only as and when needed.  Large scale migrations might be 
worth leaving until a proper filter is written.  

Normally people just  post such things as a bug-report but use the drop-downs to make it a "feature 
request" or "Enhancement request".  Some other projects use the term "Wish-list item".  THat's 
really the best 1st step.  Maybe look into GSoC some other time.  

There is also some excellent thing for people or organisations to promise to pay a certain amount 
if their favourite bit of coding gets done.  If enough people have gone for the same thing it can 
increase the chances of a dev getting interested and completing the work.  
Regards from 
Tom :)  





> ________________________________
> From: Alexander Thurgood <alex.thurgood@gmail.com>
> To: users@global.libreoffice.org 
> Sent: Wednesday, 22 May 2013, 18:50
> Subject: [libreoffice-users] Re: no answers to my question
>
>
> Le 22/05/13 10:25, McBride a écrit :
>
> > My question was Can libre office read pages/appleworks/clarissworks?
> > Thanks. Turquoisegrece
>
> The short answer : No. Never could and probably never will unless
> someone decides to develop the corresponding filters.
>
> Clarisworks and Appleworks used binary formats AFAIK.
> Pages uses some kind of XML markup and an embedded PDF, but there's
> nothing to read that with in LO.
>
>
> Alex
>
>
>
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