Re: abiword

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Subject: Re: abiword
From: Alan Shutko <ats@acm.org>
Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 17:59:08 -0400
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Daniel Freedman <freedman@ccmr.cornell.edu> writes:

> From what I know, MS Word Import is so hard mainly because .DOC it
> is not a very explicitly defined format

Actually, Abiword does very well at it.  The major problem comes from
documents with things Abiword doesn't support (mostly tables).

-- 
Alan Shutko <ats@acm.org> - In a variety of flavors!
Promptness is its own reward, if one lives by the clock instead of the sword.

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