From owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Oct 18 09:00:32 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D78AC16A4B3 for ; Sat, 18 Oct 2003 09:00:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail08a.verio.de (mail08a.verio.de [213.198.55.73]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9B60243FA3 for ; Sat, 18 Oct 2003 09:00:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from martin-k@softmaker.de) Received: from www.softmaker.de (213.198.12.36) by mail08a.verio.de (RS ver 1.0.87vs) with SMTP id 4-0346812819; Sat, 18 Oct 2003 18:00:20 +0200 (CEST) Received: from softmaker.de [192.168.168.42] by softmaker.de (FTGate 2, 2, 4, 1); Sat, 18 Oct 2003 18:06:38 +0200 Message-ID: <3F9163C5.9050306@softmaker.de> Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2003 18:01:09 +0200 From: Martin Kotulla User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20030925 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Scott Mitchell References: <3F846E0C.6030001@softmaker.de> <20031011112012.GA55541@llama.fishballoon.org> <3F87EAD8.7040401@softmaker.de> <20031012194432.GD72176@llama.fishballoon.org> In-Reply-To: <20031012194432.GD72176@llama.fishballoon.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Loop-Detect: 1 cc: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: TextMaker for FreeBSD trial now available X-BeenThere: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: FreeBSD Evangelism List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2003 16:00:33 -0000 Scott: Scott Mitchell wrote: >One other thing - am I right in thinking that TextMaker's Word import >doesn't handle Word 'drawings' (the vector-graphics diagrams you can draw >within Word, or paste in from PowerPoint)? They just come up as grey >placeholder boxes in the documents I opened, although all the bitmap images >were just fine. A bit of a bummer if these don't work, as just about every >document I deal with at work seems to include one or more of them :-( > >Cheers, > > Scott > > > This depends on which version of Word you are using, which version you are saving to, the phases of the moon etc... Word saves its drawings in several formats: simple vectors, OLE objects, Escher drawings (aka AutoShapes), and metafiles. We are importing as much as possible but currently TextMaker does not have a complete AutoShapes import. This (along with the user interface for creating and manipulating AutoShapes) will be in the next release. Actually, the code for our AutoShapes drawing layer is already nearly finished. Martin Kotulla SoftMaker Software GmbH