working on saving to multiple formats

[Camilla Boemann]

You are quite correct in that Words, Sheets and Stage can’t say to anything but ODF formats. The only format besides that is pdf and I think .txt neither of which is what people think of when talking about saving.

 

If it says Words can save to Word then it is to rtf when leaves a lot to be desired. Plan doesn’t save explicitly as it saves automatically all the time.

 

So there is free reign as to getting more saving support in. Saving to other formats is done through what we call filters. They take an .odf file and convert it to a target format file. So it’s rather independent of the rest of Calligra. That said there are some helper libraries, and something else to note is that we would prefer to not pull in any big dependencies.

 

Best regards

Camilla

 

From: calligra-devel [mailto:calligra-devel-bounces at kde.org] On Behalf Of Ryein Goddard
Sent: 16. maj 2016 23:41
To: Calligra Suite developers and users mailing list <calligra-devel at kde.org>
Subject: Re: working on saving to multiple formats

 

In 16.04 calligra can save to word in words, author. Sheets can't yet though. From what I can see Brain Dump doesn't save at all. Plan still needs saving functionality for word.

 

I haven't gotten a source version built because I wanted to talk with you all first to check.  I'd really love to help getting Kubuntu to a fully pure Qt/KDE state.  

 

On Mon, May 16, 2016 at 3:10 AM, Jaroslaw Staniek <staniek at kde.org <mailto:staniek at kde.org> > wrote:

 

 

On 16 May 2016 at 00:53, Ryein C. Goddard <ryein at goddardlabs.com <mailto:ryein at goddardlabs.com> > wrote:

I was speaking with some folks on the kubuntu forum and they said the reason
they didn't go with Calligra was because it cannot save to multiple file
formats.

 

​Calligra supports multiple formats in the Save As dialog.. Could you be more specific? 
Maybe it means level of support?

On the other hand we know that availability and timing for updates in _Ubuntu_ in general is rather suboptimal.

Special cases, for example Kexi has better support for file formats than the Kubuntu's default -- Kexi directly supports MDB and does not drag Java dependencies to the desktop. Kubuntu's counterparts do not have these advantages.

 

 

Any reason for this?  Is this an area that needs extra developer help?

 

​Yes, always. ​

 

Scope of the challenge shows that such projects can be easily of the size of entire KDE. There's probably more of specifications to implement/maintain/test than in web browser projects.
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