[Scribus] libwpd

[PLinnell]

On Saturday 08 April 2006 21:57, Craig Bradney wrote:
> On Saturday 08 April 2006 17:24, Gregory Pittman wrote:
> > Something I just noticed while upgrading my office computer to
> > FC5 is that there is now a libwpd, used by Abiword and OO.org to
> > import Wordperfect files. It's written in C++.
> > Here's a link:   http://libwpd.sourceforge.net/
> >
> > Using recent versions of Abiword, I have to say it works quite
> > well, even for things like tables, which were previously always
> > problematic. In fact, what I've been doing with Scribus is to
> > load a file into Abiword, then copy-paste into Story Editor.
> > If I get the website right, there is also a wpd2html and wpd2text
> > as command line options also.
> >
> > I don't know how much trouble it would be to incorporate this
> > into Scribus.
>
> Probably not too hard and I expect we will get it in 1.3.4 or
> 1.3.5. Remember.. Riku did the MS Word importer in under 6 hours.
> :)
>
> Craig

See: http://bugs.scribus.net/view.php?id=3589