[libreoffice-users] Re: [tdf-announce] The Document Liberation, one year after

Hi :)
I really like the sound of this.  If other Office Suites and programs join
in then we might have even better libraries for all the programs and suites
to use.  Is anyone here on the mailing lists or similar for other programs
and suites such as Abiword, Gnumeric, Calligra or any others and able to
pass it on?
Regards from
Tom :)

On 10 April 2015 at 15:17, Italo Vignoli <italo@libreoffice.org> wrote:

> Berlin, April 9, 2015 - The Document Liberation is a project of The
> Document Foundation, announced in early April 2014 to host the different
> libraries handling proprietary and legacy document formats within
> LibreOffice. The idea was to provide a single repository for other
> software projects willing to deploy the same libraries, in order to
> simplify the integration. The project is led by Fridrich Strba and David
> Tardon, two long time LibreOffice contributors.
>
> During 2014, members of the project released a new framework library,
> called librevenge, which contains all the document interfaces and helper
> types, in order to simplify the dependency chain. In addition, they
> started a new library for importing Adobe PageMaker documents,
> libpagemaker, written as part of Google Summer of Code 2014 by Anurag
> Kanungo.
>
> Existing libraries have also been extended with the addition of more
> formats, like libwps with the addition of Microsoft Works Spreadsheet
> and Database by Laurent Alonso. He is now working on adding support for
> Lotus 1-2-3, which is one of the most famous legacy applications for
> personal computers. Laurent has also added support for more than twenty
> legacy Mac formats to libmwaw.
>
> Developers have created two export libraries - libepubgen for ePub and
> librvngabw for Abiword - and are currently working at improving import
> filters for Adobe Freehand - libfreehand - and Apple Pages - libetonyek.
> Document Liberation libraries are available for Corel WordPerfect
> (including Graphics) and Corel Draw, Microsoft Works, AbiWord, Microsoft
> Publisher and Microsoft Visio, Apple Keynote, Adobe FreeHand, Aldus
> PageMaker, plus many legacy Mac document formats and many e-book formats.
>
> Each library under the Document Liberation umbrella exists as an
> independent project, with its own maintainer, release schedule and
> license, according to the Ethos of Free Software which is championed by
> The Document Foundation.
>
> For more information: http://www.documentliberation.org.
>
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