PWI file format import for word processing does not currently exist. PWI is a file format used by Word for Windows CE, and can contain mixed handwriting and text. (Note that there are several other file formats listed at Microsoft's website: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/884182 but I am not reporting them separately because I am not familiar with them.)
Pocket Word format used to be supported by LibreOffice, but the support was dropped in 4.0, IIRC. The code was in xmerge/source/pocketword.
(In reply to comment #1) > Pocket Word format used to be supported by LibreOffice, but the support was > dropped in 4.0, IIRC. The code was in xmerge/source/pocketword. Removed by http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=a5783fe922b2419b5b662eb5f544a1f401341dbf As per comment 1, confirmed. Status set to NEW. Summary edited for clarity. David, if you are not happy with this, please feel free to set status accordingly, as you (or Fridrich / Laurent) know what the true likelihood of writing an import filter for this format will be.
I can tell you what is the likelihood I am going to write the filter :-) But if anyone wants to work on it, sure, why not...
*** Bug 109095 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Hello, in order to rewrite this filter, some .pwi files will be needed: ie. even if it is probably possible to read the old code to create a new filter, if we can not test it on some files, the results will probably be catastrophic....
Created attachment 142531 [details] some psw files found on bz.appache.org, ...
Here's some code to dump the file contents: https://pastebin.com/A6EZuSYT
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Created attachment 158019 [details] some .pwi files I know this is a old bump but if you need some PWI files from an old pocket word instance i had, i have a few i could upload from an old Jornada i used in 2006. I dont know the contents as it has been just so long.
Created attachment 158020 [details] more .pwi files What ponderious titles these have. i have a slew, if i find someone from the Document Foundation at SCALE 18x once more i will inquire about that upload site that use to exist for odd and unsual files that Libreoffice could not open.
Created attachment 158021 [details] TAR of .pwi files I am such a dork... i know how to archive! Here is every .pwi i had on that card.
Created attachment 159510 [details] psw found on bz.appache.org, ... Oops, the previous attachment was bad, so here are the files that I found on bz.appache.org, ...
The old filter is quite basic: it reads the font names, then uses some heuristics to retrieve paragraphs of text, retrieving: - the main properties of the characters, with the notable exception of the superscript and the subscript… - the properties of the following paragraph: first indent, left/right margin, left/center/.. alignment, a flag to know if it is a bulleted list, I have rewritten a « more robust » version of this code in libwps, but clearly, there are many things that are not recovered (as I can not guess what there means). If you want to try it, I have updated the libwps version compiled with emscripten: http://libwps.sourceforge.net/convertWPS.html . To improve this filter, it would be useful to have some Pocket Word files (and their pdfs equivalent) that : - [character properties] use exponents and subscripts, - [paragraph properties] have paragraphs with single/double/double line spacing/..., with a certain spacing before/after the paragraph, lines with fixed height, different types of listings - [general] contains header(s), footer(s), footnote(s), endnotes, comment(s), image(s), table(s)… and simple documents with different page sizes, different margins, some metadata... - …
A basic filter (from libwps) must be present in LibreOffice 7.1 and allow to open basic .psw and .pwi files...