Re^5: Microsoft Works

Converters are expensive because they're hard. The formats you're attempting to convert between are complicated and convoluted formats because they store a lot of data, which makes the converter even harder. My opinion is that you are biting off waaay more than you realize. But, that's just my opinion. YMMV

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Re^6: Microsoft Works by straywalrus (Friar) on Oct 08, 2004 at 21:58 UTC
actually i do realize how much information goes into those documents. I've worked with PDF & XML office suites and I know how much crap they pack in there. Word packs complete rewrite listings for every line. I realize the ammount of work going into this, that is why I asked before hacking out some code, and I specifically asked for modules that achieved this purpose. Sheesh.	[reply]