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Last modified: 2003 Apr 26


Project Summary

The purpose of this project is to coordinate efforts to develop integrated file filters for the Corel WordPerfect (tm) word processor. In other words: we want to make it possible for OpenOffice.org users to import and export WordPerfect files.

What's been done?

A library, libwpd, has been written that maps WordPerfect's stream-based file format to a structured document representation (such as OpenOffice.org's XML file format).

A writerperfect module that contains a WordPerfect import filter based on libwpd has been integrated in OpenOffice.org 2.0.

A command line tool wpd2sxw that shares codes with the writerperfect module is available also from libwpd's web-site.

Participation

The, development of libwpd, wpd2sxw, and writerperfect is being conducted mainly externally on SourceForge.net. Please direct all technical discussion (bug reports, compilation problems, offers of development assistance, etc.) to the libwpd-devel mailing list.

General project-specific discussion regarding WordPerfect and OpenOffice.org (migration issues, project expectations, integration with OpenOffice.org, etc.) may be conducted through our dev discussion list. You can subscribe to this list by sending an email to: dev-subscribe@wp.openoffice.org. Please scan the archive of our discuss list to catch up on what's been discussed so far: http://wp.openoffice.org/. Then, you might consider introducing yourself, letting us know how you found out about the project, what your interest is, and anything else you care to share.

NOTICE: WordPerfect is a registered trademark of Corel Corporation.