Suggestion: depend on writerperfect directly for wordperfect/visio/works import filter

Cyrille Berger Skott cberger at cberger.net
Tue Nov 22 20:47:19 GMT 2011


On Tuesday 22 November 2011, Sven Langkamp wrote:
> > hm... What is writerperfect actually? If it isn't too big & saves us a
> > lot of code, especially code that's copied from it, it might be worth
> > it.
> 
> writerperfect provides executables that do what our filters are doing.
> The difference is minimal, in one case you call the library directly
> and in the other case you call a seperate executable. As you can see
> in the wpg filter, the amount of code isn't big.
> 
> Currently there are three converters, each with a size of 50-100kb on
> ubuntu.
I actually saw that the source code of writerperfect also offer library call 
(didn't check if the headers were installed, or not).

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Cyrille Berger Skott



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