From: Hubert Figuiere (hub@nyorp.abisource.com)
Date: Thu May 16 2002 - 05:05:47 EDT
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Subject: Re: AbiWord, wvWare, and Hancom
From: Bart Decrem <bart@hancom.com>
To: Dom Lachowicz <doml@appligent.com>
Cc: AbiWord Developer List <abiword-dev@abisource.com>
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Hi Dom, AbiWord team,
Thanks for the kind words. I just wanted to add to that that I'm really
impressed with AbiWord 1.0.1. It's a terrific product and I'm glad you
guys are getting the great press your project deserves.
Best of luck!
Cheers,
Bart
2002-05-15 =BC=F6 23:21, Dom Lachowicz=B0=A1 =C0=DB=BC=BA:
> So last night, I had the pleasure of talking with Bart Decrem again (I
> always love talking with Bart) for about 45 minutes to an hour. We
> talked about a lot of things, but mainly about:
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> *) The future of OpenOffice and the benefits gained by sharing in their
> successes
> *) The future of Hancom
> *) Collaboration between our two organizations
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> And I have to say that the talk was largely productive. Bart now
> believes that he has a course of action to propose to his employers.=20
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> Hancom will be working with us to help open up their file format. They
> have a 200 page document describing their format, but unfortunately, it
> is mostly in Korean. If there is someone who wants to translate that
> into English, you'd be doing us a huge favor. Hancom has also given me
> access to their FTP site and several license-keys for their product, and
> I have an open offer to see some internals of the product, which I have
> declined to use for the moment.
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> On our part, I'd like to get us at least to read the Hancom format in
> short order. Ideally, we will be able to write it too. It would help out
> both of our projects greatly to do this. Once Jody (gnumeric maintainer)
> finishes up some work on the CompoundDocument library (OLE2 and
> OpenOffice JAR format reading & writing library), I commit myself to
> improving AbiWord's OpenOffice support so that it is on-par with our ABW
> and RTF support.
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> There are other details which I am purposefully excluding here, and I
> will release them at a later time when I feel it is appropriate.
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> If you are interested in working on a HancomWord import/export filter,
> please contact me directly off-list and I will do my best to help you
> out.
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> Cheers,
> Dom
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