Re: A few questions

From: Julien Olivier (julo@altern.org)
Date: Mon Sep 01 2003 - 05:07:36 EDT

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    On Mon, 2003-09-01 at 08:31, Hubert Figuiere wrote:
    > On Sun, 2003-08-31 at 13:02, Julien Olivier wrote:
    >
    > > - I have tried to open a few DOC files sent to me by my boss and, while
    > > most of them were almost perfectly converted, those containing diagrams
    > > (I guess there is a drawing tool in MS Word) didn't work: the diagrams
    > > didn't appear at all.
    >
    > The problem is more tricky than it sounds, because Word does things
    > behind your back without telling. If the diagram is an embedded object
    > (from the OLE point of view) then you are SOL. This is what happen when
    > diagrams comes from Visio, Micrografx Designer and problem any other
    > Windows program that do that. One of the thing that make this more
    > complicated is that most of the time you also need the original program
    > (at least for Micrografx Designer this happened as a Word doc created on
    > Windows did not contain the pictures when open on Mac because Word on
    > Mac did not know what to do). You don't dream of that feature. You have
    > nightmares !!
    >

    Well, in my precise case, the diagram is almost perfectly displayed in
    OOO. So I guess it doesn't depend on any external program. Do you want
    me to send the document anywhere (it's not top secret but I wouldn't
    like it to finish everywhere though) ?

    >
    > > - Still related to the former question, is there or will there be a
    > > drawing tool in Abiword ? I mean something to draw basic geometrical
    > > shapes and arrows.
    >
    > I don't think we'll do that. It is a word processor, not a nuclear
    > plant. But we'll add sometime in the future embedding capabilities to
    > allow seamlessly edit diagram in an external tool. We already have
    > plug-ins for that to open bitmap images in GIMP.
    >

    That sounds good to me.

    > [...]
    >
    > > - I noticed that there is no function to create a table of contents
    > > automatically. Are there any plans for that in the future ? I think
    > > that's a must-have for any serious word processor. Well, at least I use
    > > it very much :)
    >
    > http://bugzilla.abisource.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1950
    >

    Yes, that's the bug I was looking for. Thank you.

    > [...]
    >
    > Hub

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