Import/Export Filters

Abiword Filter
Status 	 The Abiword filter is in the early stages, and should be used with caution.
Developer 	 Nicolas Goutte nicog@snafu.de.
Abiword Homepage 	 http://www.abisource.com

Import Abiword files into
Features	Import text. Can import simple formating (font name, font size, bold, italic, underline, colour, subscript superscript). Can read gzip-compressed files (just use .abw.gz or .zabw as an extension of the filename!)
Still to be done.	Multiple columns Styles Images (PNG) Stop from crashing when importing wrong documents. Many other things...

Export files into Abiword files
Features	Export text. Can export simple formating (font name, font size, bold, italic, underline, colour, subscript superscript). Can write gzip-compressed files (just use .abw.gz or .zabw as an extension of the filename!)
Still to be done.	Multiple columns. Styles. Images (Only PNG possible). Transform tables into something AbiWord can understand. 's DTP modus (How can you export that?) Many other things...

Applixware Filter
Status 	 The Applixware filter is in the early stages, and should be used with caution. This is currently an import only filter.
Developer 	 Enno Bartels ebartels@nwn.de.
Applixware Homepage 	 http://www.vistasource.com/

Import Applixword files into
Features	Can import simple text from Applix Word documents Can convert all special characters Tests the headline of the document Now read a line and not a single character Ignores text in style block. Ignores text in header/footer block Can detect embedded applix objects Reads a full applix tagline for all lineread operations. It can be one or more lines to get one tag. Can differ betwen textstr end and(") and applix quotes (/"). Can read the color block and converts cmyk to rgb. Font size, bold, italic, underline, fontcolor, fontfamily.
Still to be done.	Get format and style information and add this into Textblock style, endof line - what is a paragraph Tabulators Header and footer Embedded applixwear objects Linked objects - ⪚ pictures add endoffile checking with dialog in do-while loops

Export files into Applixware files
Not currently available.

ASCII Filter
Status 	 The ASCII filter is complete and fully functional.
Developer 	 Wolf-Michael Bolle Bolle@ID-PRO.de, Werner Trobin wtrobin@mandrakesoft.com, Reginald Stadlbauer reggie@kde.org, Nicolas Goutte nicog@snafu.de

Import ASCII files into
All text is imported into .

Export files to ASCII files.
All text is exported into an ASCII file.

HTML Filter (HTML 4.01)
Status 	 The HTML filter is in the early stages, and is being rewritten. It should be used with caution.
Developer 	 Nicolas Goutte nicog@snafu.de.
HTML homepage 	 http://www.w3.org/TR/html401

Import HTML files into
Features	Crude! 1.0 or well-formed HTML 4.01 only!
Still to be done.	character references/entities <font> tags tables images use all of CSS2 (not just a very little part of it) many other tags importing non-well-formed HTML 4.01 or older

Export files into HTML
Features	Export to HTML 4.01 or 1.0 documents Character formatting (not in Spartan mode) Partial CSS2 support (still no style sheets)
Still to be done.	Finish the complete re-write Fix white space problems (space at start, space at end, multiple consecutive spaces) Other Unicode encodings (⪚ UTF-16) Other non-Unicode encodings (⪚ ASCII, Local encoding) Tables Images Lists Special treatment for paragraphs in fixed fonts (needed or not?) CSS2 (treatment) Have a correct font size algorithm

LaTeX Filter

Maker Interchange Format (MIF)/Adobe Framemaker Filter
Status 	 The MIF filter is in the early stages and should be used with caution.
Developer 	 Matthias Kalle Dalheimer kalle@dalheimer.de>
Adobe Framemaker Homepage 	 http://www.adobe.com/products/framemaker/main.html

Import MIF files into
All text is imported into .

Export files to MIF files.
Not currently available.

Rich Text File (RTF) Filter
Status 	 The RTF import filter is not currently functioning. The Export filter is working, but has some known limitations. It should be used with caution.
Developers 	 Wolf-Michael Bolle Bolle@ID-PRO.de and Michael Johnsonmailto:mikejl@xnet.com.
RTF File Format Page: 	 http://www.primate.wisc.edu/software/RTF/

Import RTF files into
This is currently not functioning

Export files into RTF
Features	Unicode to ANSI conversion. Text formatting. (font, size, weight, italic, undeANSIe, ⪚.) Paragraph numbering. (Head 1,2,3 Numeric, Alpha, Roman, bullet) Multi level paragraph numbering. (1.2.5, ) Doesn't work properly Table presentations (with cell borders). Page sizes. Margins. Document information. (author, title, ). Tabulator tags. Page headers. Page footers. Paragraph borders. Colored text and borders. Date markers. Time markers. Page numbers.
Still to be done.	Footnotes and endnotes. Multi column. Text boxes. Pixmaps. Kpart inserts (, , ). Page hard breaks. Identification of the ANSI code page. Multi-strike markup. (no current plans). Bidirectional markup. (no current plans).

Star Writer Filter
Development has begun, but Star Writer Files are currently not supported.

Word 97 and Word 2000 Filter
Status 	 The Word 97/2000 export filter is not currently functioning. The import filter is working, but has some known limitations. It should be used with caution.
Developers 	 Wolf-Michael Bolle Bolle@ID-PRO.de and Michael Johnsonmailto:mikejl@xnet.com.
Word File Format: 	 Can be located within s MSDN, but rumor has it that it may have been lost or removed.

Import Word files into .
Features	numbered headings lists (bulleted, numbered, lettered) body text with some formatting (bold, italic, underline, superscript, subscript) word-builtin colors tables i18n support
Still to be done.	Embedded objects (with some restrictions) Header and footer support. many more..

Export files for use in Word.
This is currently not functioning