AbiWord 0.9.2
W. Wayne Liauh
LiauhW001 at hawaii.rr.com
Tue Sep 25 15:02:29 PDT 2001
Since Word uses a proprietary format and Microsoft never releases its
spec (I never could understand why our government allows such a
proprietary format to become a standard), my experience is, no filter
does a satisfactory job. For simple documents, the coversion is usually
OK. But if your Word documents contain heavy formatting, such as
tables, headers/footers, text boxes, etc., then the conversion usually
fails.
Let me re-phrase my question, why do we allow our government to adopt a
such proprietary format to become a standard?
Steve Anderson wrote:
> I installed the latest AbiWord (0.9.2 - Aug 2001) and it actually
> imports .doc files realtively good. It kept the original formatting,
> however it didn't display the headers. Documents seem to look okay
> overall. AbiWord page: http://www.abisource.com/
> Steve Anderson
>
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