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

Le 23 avr. 2014 à 10:11, Jay Philips <philipz85@hotmail.com> a écrit :

> 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 :
> >
> > > …..
> > 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.
        If they only allow to retrieve the database content, converting the document in Excel can 
be ok.
In Word, they can probably create a table to store the database’s content but I fear that the 
document
will be illisible if the database contains too many fields or records :-~

> > > 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. :)
        Ok.
-- 
Amicalement,
        Laurent




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