libwpd 0.8.7 review

License: LGPL (GNU Lesser General Public License) File size: 0K Developer: William Lachance

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libwpd is a library designed to help process WordPerfect documents.

libwpd exposes a simple callback-based API (similar to SAX), allowing it to be easily plugged into any C or C++ application.

It is used by recent versions of AbiWord and OpenOffice.org to provide WordPerfect file import.

Here are some key features of "libwpd":
WordPerfect 6/7/8/9/10/11 import:

Any combination of text properties for both paragraphs and text spans
Text alignment (left, center, right, justified)
Page margins
Footnotes/Endnotes
Tables, including row and column spans, table alignment, and column widths
Headers/Footers
Lists, ordered and unordered
Support for a substantial portion of the WordPerfect extended character set
Columns (and column breaks)
Font size/face changes
Page breaks
WordPerfect files in the OLE format

WordPerfect 5 import:

Basic support for plain text import

WordPerfect 4 import:

Basic support for text properties for text spans

Planned Features

Support for WordPerfect 6/7/8/9/10/11 document export
Paragraph styles
Positioned Objects (e.g.: text boxes)
Page numbering
Embedded images
Embedded objects (e.g.: spreadsheets)
Equations and math

What's New in This Release:
Support for WordPerfect for Mac 1.x was added.