Issue 33625 - Lotus WordPro file compatibility
Summary: Lotus WordPro file compatibility
Status: CONFIRMED
Alias: None
Product: Writer
Classification: Application
Component: open-import (show other issues)
Version: OOo 1.1
Hardware: All All
: P3 Trivial with 12 votes (vote)
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Reported: 2004-08-31 12:47 UTC by 9point9
Modified: 2013-08-07 14:38 UTC (History)
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Description 9point9 2004-08-31 12:47:43 UTC 
As yet there is no direct file compatibility with Lotus WordPro.  As there are 
many Lotus Smartsuite users who may wish to switch to OOo it would be useful 
for them if there was *.lwp file compatibility to ease the upgrade path.

They could save first to Word and then open that but that is riskier.
Comment 1 michael.ruess 2004-08-31 13:55:35 UTC 
reassignd to BH.
Comment 2 mmeeks 2004-10-18 09:16:57 UTC 
I have a member of my team working on this now - we'll try to get it into 2.0
Comment 3 tcblack 2004-10-21 20:00:22 UTC 
This is a repeat of issue 11215.
Comment 4 alex.thurgood 2005-03-04 16:24:29 UTC 
Hi Michael,

Have you got any update on this or were the ressources required elsewhere ?

Alex
Comment 5 mmeeks 2005-03-07 11:08:44 UTC 
Sure; we came up with some code that does some of the work here.
Unfortunately the LWP file format is not only undocumented, horribly convoluted,
broken, inextensible, with no sane framing structure etc. :-)

But it's also uncharacteristically nasty wrt. writing an importer.

Nevertheless - we have some code that'll import at least the plain text from
many LWP files. There are also some pointers to style information there, but we
didn't unwind exactly how the style table is encoded unfortunately.
Comment 6 mmeeks 2005-07-28 10:28:02 UTC 
I guess someone needs to review the code.
Comment 7 michael.ruess 2005-07-28 10:45:20 UTC 
Code review won't be done by QA... 
MRU->AMA: please share this in DEV.
Comment 8 mmeeks 2005-12-07 12:09:51 UTC 
Grief - it's been a long time; so - it turns out about the best we can do is
grab the plain text. We did some more investigation that gave us a style/format
index into a table, but ... the format is twisted beyond belief and most
attempts to discover even the overall structure fall down in a mess.

Anyhow - the patches are:

http://go-oo.org/ooo-build/patches/src680/lwp-detect.diff
http://go-oo.org/ooo-build/patches/src680/lwp-parse.diff
http://go-oo.org/ooo-build/patches/src680/lwp-build.diff

Unfortunately - no documentation at all on the format is forthcoming from IBM.
Comment 9 thhealy 2006-06-29 19:59:11 UTC 
Hello, Lotus WordPro has a huge user base. I believe that many would migrate to 
OO if they could. Thanks!