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OpenDocument support

Posted: Thu Sep 08, 2005 9:33 am
by gray
Does it planned to include OpenDocument format support?

Massachusetts to adopt 'open' desktop

(in Russian)

Posted: Thu Sep 08, 2005 8:31 pm
by Sergey Tkachenko
Currently it's not planned. May be plans will be changed.

Posted: Fri Oct 07, 2005 11:31 am
by motions
I also would appreciate the OASIS OpenDocument format supported by TRichview.
For a new project in the future, we think about switching from RTF format in text-blob fields within databases to OASIS OpenDoc.

Posted: Mon Oct 10, 2005 7:36 pm
by Rob
Working on it...

Posted: Thu Oct 20, 2005 8:39 pm
by Rob
OpenDocukment support will be made available through a separate importer. Features supported cannot be disclosed at this moment, since a lot of work still has to be done.

There will not be full support for all aspects of the OD specification, since TRichView does not support all features.

At this moment, simple text and styles can be loaded through the importer.

Posted: Sat Oct 22, 2005 7:07 pm
by Rob
Question for anyone interested in OpenDocument support:

Which features do you really need first?

Posted: Sat Oct 22, 2005 7:32 pm
by Sergey Tkachenko
A poll is added to this topic

Posted: Sat Oct 22, 2005 10:21 pm
by Rob
Status as of now for the OpenDocument importer:

- Simple styles, using styles subdoc and content subdoc.
- Loading embedded WMF images. This includes bitmaps.
- Table, table cell and table column styles are parsed. No display of tables yet.

To do for now:
- Global styles and other style related things
- Tables (displaying)
- Drawings and textboxes

Status update

Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2005 6:33 am
by Rob
The importer supports the following:

- Simple styles, using styles subdoc and content subdoc.
- Loading embedded WMF images. This includes bitmaps.
- Loading embedded GIF images
- Loading embedded PNG images
- Table, table cell and table column styles are parsed. Initial displaying of text, background and images. Merged cells horizontally supported.

To do for now:
- Global styles and other style related things
- Tables (more features)
- Drawings and textboxes

Status update

Posted: Wed Nov 02, 2005 7:27 am
by Rob
The importer supports the following:

- Simple styles, using styles subdoc and content subdoc.
- Loading embedded WMF images. This includes bitmaps.
- Loading embedded GIF images
- Loading embedded PNG images
- Table, table cell and table column styles are parsed. Initial displaying of text, background and images. Merged cells horizontally and vertically. Images as background for cells.

To do for now:
- Global styles and other style related things
- Tables, explicit column widths and header styles
- Drawings and textboxes

Posted: Fri Nov 04, 2005 9:06 pm
by Rob
PostPosted: Wed Nov 02, 2005 8:27 am Post subject: Status update
The importer supports the following:

- Simple styles, using styles subdoc and content subdoc.
- Loading embedded WMF images. This includes bitmaps.
- Loading embedded GIF images
- Loading embedded PNG images
- Table, table cell and table column styles are parsed. Initial displaying of text, background and images. Merged cells horizontally and vertically. Images as background for cells.
- First bit of global styles parsing;
- Lists with various styles.

To do for now:
- Global styles and other style related things
- Tables, explicit column widths and header styles
- Drawings and textboxes

Posted: Tue Nov 22, 2005 11:17 am
by Rob
Latest news on progress:

Improved global styles parsing.


Nothing more at the moment. A bit lack of time due to my new born son :D

Born in good health on November 17th, 8:16 am, weighing 3860 gr and a length of 55 cm. Mother and son are doing fine.

Posted: Tue Nov 22, 2005 12:44 pm
by Sergey Tkachenko
My congratulations, Rob :)

Posted: Tue Nov 22, 2005 3:10 pm
by Pieter E.
@Rob:Congratulations with your son!

Posted: Thu Nov 24, 2005 7:32 am
by gray
Congratulations! ... The BEST you can :)