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

On 04/23/2014 11:00 AM, alonso wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Le 22 avr. 2014 à 16:38, Jay Philips <philipz85@hotmail.com 
> <mailto:philipz85@hotmail.com>> a écrit :
>
> > On 04/21/2014 12:47 PM, alonso wrote:
> > > Le 20 avr. 2014 à 23:06, Jay Philips <philipz85@hotmail.com 
> > > <mailto:philipz85@hotmail.com>> a écrit :
> > >
> > > > Hi David,
> > > Hello Jay,
> > >
> > > > 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?
> > > In general, I would say that the list(ideas for future development 
> > > at http://www.documentliberation.org/projects/
> > > + planned : iWork Pages, iWork Numbers ) can give a good list of 
> > > files which can be useful in some near future...
> > Well some people i know have macs so i'll see if i can get them to 
> > create some iworks pages and numbers files. I think it might be a 
> > great idea to create some sample files with basic features that would 
> > be in their functionality and ask users who want to send in samples, 
> > to submit ones that are similar to them.
> > > Note: personally, for the libwps library, as I am trying to see if 
> > > we can retrieve the main content of wdb files,
> > > I am actually looking for WDB Microsoft Works for PC files and also 
> > > for some WKS files, I have only
> > > a few numbers of them :-~
> > For wdb files, you might like to check out < 
> > http://www.codealchemists.com/worksdatabaseconverter/ > and maybe we 
> > can make a donation to them to open source their code. I will check 
> > if anyone i know still has microsoft works on an old pc so i can get 
> > you more samples.
> We can try and/or see if he/she/they want to participate to the 
> Document Liberation project…
>
> In fact, I begin to work on some WDB files and their structures seem 
> quite similar to the WKS structures :-)
> Of course, some new zones exist to code reports and probably forms, 
> 1D-formula… , but I begin to be able to
> extract some of the database content ( which is what I want to convert 
> as I can only convert these files in spreadsheet ), …

When i was checking around yesterday, all of the conversion methods for 
wdb files seem to all convert to word or excel, which i found strange.

> > But it would be nice to have guidelines of the samples you need.
> In general, I mainly want to have as many test files as possible. Ie. 
> I use some scripts to detect unexpected
> content and I check by hand that some conversions are «  good » or not 
> ( but as I am working on so many formats in
> libmwaw, I may miss something ).

Well when i was mentioning sample guides, i was more focused on new 
formats that havent been started as yet so the initial samples cover 
most of the functionality found in that type of application. Of course 
after that, as many test files as possible is the way to go. :)

> Concerning libwps as I do not have any way to launch the latest 
> versions of Microsoft Works for PC, also having
> some files converted in pdf will be clearly better….

I would assume you'd be able to run works on wine. Found someone who 
thinks they may have an old laptop with it on it, so if you could tell 
me what kind of samples you need, i could have him create them.

> > > > Jay Philips
>
> PS: for Jay, sorry for the duplicated email, but as I have done a 
> reply instead of a reply all…

No problem. :)

> --
> Amicalement,
> Laurent


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