| Summary: | FILTER: The new Import filters for AppleWorks/ClarisWorks don't work for spreadsheets | ||
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| Product: | LibreOffice | Reporter: | chdiza |
| Component: | Calc | Assignee: | Not Assigned <libreoffice-bugs> |
| Status: | RESOLVED NOTABUG | ||
| Severity: | normal | CC: | dtardon, franz.hartwig |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 4.1.1.1 rc | ||
| Hardware: | Other | ||
| OS: | macOS (All) | ||
| Whiteboard: | BSA | ||
| Crash report or crash signature: | Regression By: | ||
The libwpd API that libmwaw uses only handles text documents. There is a comparable API for import of spreadsheets in liborcus, but so far nobody has used it to write additional import filters (other than the few that are already part of liborcus). I am closing this report, because technically it is not a bug, but a known limitation of what libmwaw can do. And it only marginally touches libreoffice anyway, as libmwaw is not even under our control. OK, that's fine, but then you guys should advertise the limitation. Instead of saying "Hey, Appleworks now!" in New Features, you should say "Hey, Appleworks now (Word Processing and Drawing only)!" (In reply to comment #2) > OK, that's fine, but then you guys should advertise the limitation. Instead > of saying "Hey, Appleworks now!" in New Features, you should say "Hey, > Appleworks now (Word Processing and Drawing only)!" Where do you read that? What I see is "Support for Legacy Mac Word Processor Documents" (http://www.libreoffice.org/download/4-1-new-features-and-fixes/) and "Support for legacy Mac word-processing documents" (https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/4.1). Sorry, my mistake. I was running down the links provided to "blogs" describing the new features, and I could swear I read one that said the AppleWorks filters could handle basic Drawing docs too. So I guessed that the filters were capable of more than just Word Processing. But alas, I must've confused the AppleWorks filter with something else. Hello chdiza, I have never seen libmwaw with or without LibreOffice adverted as a converter of spreadsheet or database CWK. Indeed, as David says the new filter ( see http://sourceforge.net/p/libmwaw/wiki/Home/ ) which was added in LibreOffice is mainly limited to convert word processing files and LibreOffice included only 18/24 of these filters ; ie. the list of available was fixed when libmwaw was introduced in LibreOffice and since this date, the list of filters has grown a little :-) As a slight note: Yes, I have indeed done a little exception so that libmwaw accepts to try to convert a paint and drawing AppleWorks/ClarisWorks file: mainly because their formats are quite similar to a word processing file and there are very few available convertors ; sometimes the result can be usable ( but most of the time not :-~ ). But up to my acknowledge, this has not been publicly adverted and when I mention it in a post like in this one, I always add a sentence to say that the result are not yet very good... |
Problem description: On OSX 10.8.4, there is no way to import AppleWorks/ClarisWorks spreadsheets. Steps to reproduce: 1. Have an old Appleworks spreadsheet document handy, with suffix .cwk 2. Activate LibreOffice 4.1.1, hit Cmd-O, navigate to the .cwk spreasheet and hit OK. Current behavior: LibreOffice 4.1.1 will open a Writer document filled with binary data (i.e., what should've been the spreadsheet). Expected behavior: It should open a Calc document with a translation of my Appleworks spreadsheet inside. Note that I just reported a different bug that has even xls documents opening as Writer documents instead of spreadsheets; maybe these two are related. Operating System: Mac OS X Version: 4.1.1.1 rc