Re: [documentliberation-discuss] two docx conversion test results on LibreOffice

Hi David,

Thanks for the info as it seems the testing i'm doing will be of no use 
to this mailing list. Are there currently and formats that you are 
working on that you would like sample files for?

Jay Philips

On 04/20/2014 08:37 PM, David Tardon wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Sun, Apr 20, 2014 at 12:04:36PM +0400, Jay Philips wrote:
> > Hi Florian,
> >
> > If this isnt wanted here then i will unsubscribe from the mailing list.
> >
> > I had watched the talk at <
> > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_hDalXsIMo&feature=youtu.be > and
> > one of the presenters mentioned about sending in files for review
> > and wondered what email address i should send such files to, or was
> > that only for new unsupported file types formats for reverse
> > engineering.
> Indeed, that is about files for reverse engineering (or regression tests
> for already existing import libraries). Anyway, for both uses it is
> important to have small files that only show one isolated feature.
> Random files harvested from the Internet are of much less use here. A
> corpus of many random files is useful too, e.g., for stress testing the
> importer (can it import everything or does it fail/crash on some
> files?), but that comes much later...
>
> Anyway, we (the Document Liberation Project) do not have any plans to
> write a separate .doc (or .docx) import library, for the following
> reasons:
> 1. The formats are documented, so they are out of scope of the project.
> 2. There already exist several very good implementations in various open
>     source projects, so there is no need for such a library.
> 3. We do not have the time to write it anyway :-)
>
> D.

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