Re: [Fb2-perl-tools-english] Scripts from GribUser

[Victor W. <vi...@wa...>]

On 2007.06.04 at 18:42:41 +0400, Nikolay Shaplov wrote:

> 
> the second issuse: It would be good to lift changes from rtf2html into
> cpan rtf2html module, and it have been changed since the time when the
> fork were made... 

Oh, its maintainer was found? When we've patched rtf2html, we tried to
contact that maintainer, but in vain.

> To solve these two issues I will need more information about rtf format
> and some amount of spare time... :-/

RTF format is documented and documentation can be found somewhere on the microsoft site.

I have somewhat oldish documentation, converted to HTML on
http://wagner.pp.ru/docs/rtf15.html 


> It is also possible to write rtf2fb2 and doc2fb2 because as far as I
> know there is a perl frontend to your catdoc ;-)

This seems not to make sense. catdoc intentionally leaves out all
formatting and doesn't deal with any metainformation (although I don't
know any Word user which fills metainformation in Word format).

This is why Communiware rtf import code based on perl rtf2html, and not
on catdoc. (there were no probles with GPL license of catdoc, because
GPL doesn't restrict calling GPL program via open "|" and I was always
able to relicense it for company I work for).

Moreover, doc format is going to die. New versions of Word use OpenXML
.docx format. May be better to think of odt2fb? Good ODT2fb tool would solve
problem of converting word documents - open them with OpenOffice, 
fix formatting (word documents ALWAYS need this), save in the native
format and convert.

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