Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 99072
Abiword 1.9.1 No longer imports Wordperfect (wpd) documents
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:55:38 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 Galeon/1.2.7 (X11; Linux i686; U;) Gecko/20030131 Description of problem: Abiword 2.0 beta (1.9.1) is supposed to have much better support for Wordperfect files (via libwpd). Wordperfect compatibility is one of the major reasons I use Abiword (and detest open office, though it now does wpd through libwpd as well). WPD compatibility needs to be included in RedHat 10 (or 9.1 or whatever Rawhide will become next) in OO and Abiword via libwpd. Thanks for listening to the rant. (We are not Microsoft, we don't bait and switch. Please, let me be compatible with the few Windows systems I deal with.) Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): abiword-1.9.1-3 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: No steps to reproduce... Abiword just needs to be recompiled against libwpd (see sourceforge) and libwpd be included. Additional info:
Included in 1.99.2 as soon as it makes it through our build system.
Just a status update: We (the abi team) are at AbiWord 1.99.4 now, and there is still no plugin package in rawhide. Maybe there are problems building the plugin package?
The plugins are included in the main package instead of in a separate package that either ends up being required by the main package or not necessarily always being installed or available. 1.99.4 is on my list to get to, although I might just wait for the next release at this point (since Dom was saying weekly releases were the aim until 2.0)