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	  | Import from MS WinWrite to KWord
 
 
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	  | Last update | $Date: 2007-09-17 09:30:42 +0200 (Mon, 17 Sep 2007) $ |  
	  | Features | WARNING: This filter was last quality-checked during
                        KOffice 1.3 (Dec 2003) 
 Imports almost everything except OLE from MS WinWrite (3.0 & 3.1) documents
 - Character formatting (fonts, bold, italic, underline, superscript, subscript, "(page)" numbering)
 - Optional/Soft Hyphenation
 - Paragraph formatting (alignment, linespacing, indentation, tabulation)
 - Paragraphs with multiple newlines
 - Pagebreaking (at the start or end of the line and on the next line)
 - Images (Standard WMFs, monochrome BMPs, position from left margin)
 - Character Set Conversion
 
 - Headers & Footers (including whether or not they are printed on first page)
 - Page formatting (margins, positioning of headers & footers, page numbers starting from any number)
 
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	  | Todo | - Accept Image Sizes for certain documents not created by Write - Fix Character Set Conversion which doesn't always seem to work
 - OLE
 - Fix a highly unusual bug: creating the dialog using dynamic memory allocation crashes KWord (or sometimes just even enabling the dialog causes a crash)
 
 - Fix any remaining issues that can't be easily resolved at the time of writing and/or require changes to KWord
 (see file IMPERFECT)
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	  | History (Detailed)
 | Version 0.5 (31 January 2003): KOffice 1.3 - portable rewrite using LibMSWrite
 - tabstops are now the same size as Write's: 1/2 inch (36pts)
 - more accurate scaled image sizes
 - change to "At Least" linespacing
 
 Version 0.3-2 (starting 4 May 2002): KOffice 1.2 Release (as well as all pre-releases > Beta2)
 - page numbers starting from any number
 - optional hyphenation
 - paragraphs with multiple newlines
 - major bug fixes: pageBreak at start of line, fontTable terminated by 0 numDataBytes
 - character set conversion
 - ported to new filter storageFile API
 - dialog with Encoding and Import Options (disabled due to stability problems)
 
 Version 0.3-1: KOffice 1.2 Beta1
 - fixed mswritelib.cc crash on files with an unusual font table
 - emulates image position from left margin by using paragraph indents
 - WMFs now render correctly in KWord (thanks to Lorthiois Thierry); note that only QWMF code was changed
 - gcc 2.95.3 internal error workaround
 - more *.desktop fixes
 
 Version 0.3 (7 Jan 2002): Put into CVS for porting to new filter architecture
 - imports nearly everything: now has full character, paragraph, page formatting
 - experimental importing of images (Standard WMF + monochrome BMP)
 - significant performance enhancements (new MSWriteLib + less XML output)
 - emulates Write's unusual linespacing using OFFSETS tag
 - includes filtertest.wri to test filter
 - corrections to Makefile.am
 - corrections/changes to *.desktop files (thanks to Werner Trobin)
 
 Version 0.2 (4 Dec 2001): First stable release
 - reads documents reliably
 - can read text with full character formatting plus partial paragraph formatting
 - nice and modular as it uses the new MSWriteView library (MSWriteLib)
 
 Version 0.1 (7 Oct 2001): Initial release
 - the underlying code to read in the format is there but the filter can only do plain text with alignment
 
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     | Authors | Clarence Dang |  
     | Links | LibMSWrite: Portable library that imports and exports Write documents, used by this filter 
 How to Perfect the Filter: problems with the filter that are/were hard to fix at the time of writing
 
 Development Roadmap: where development is heading
 
 Test File
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     | Progress report | This filter is nearing completion and OLE may be implemented sometime in the future.  However, it is unmaintained as of 2004. |  |