Activity for WordPerfect Document importer

Edward Mendelson posted a comment on discussion Open Discussion

Edward Mendelson — Sun, 26 Oct 2025 22:08:08 -0000

And here is the bad SVG output, attached.

Edward Mendelson posted a comment on discussion Open Discussion

Edward Mendelson — Sun, 26 Oct 2025 22:07:23 -0000

wpg2odg produces the correct ODG output when converting the attached WPG1 file from WPDOS 5.1 wpd2svg, unfortunately, produces an SVG file with triangular artifacts and black fill. Is it possible to fix this?

Fridrich Strba merged merge request #2 on Code

Fridrich Strba — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 08:52:51 -0000

some more const ups

Caolán McNamara created merge request #2 on Code

Caolán McNamara — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 08:52:19 -0000

some more const ups

Fridrich Strba merged merge request #1 on libodfgen

Fridrich Strba — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 07:55:56 -0000

const up some things

Caolán McNamara created merge request #1 on libodfgen

Caolán McNamara — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 19:09:38 -0000

const up some things

Fridrich Strba merged merge request #1 on Code

Fridrich Strba — Sat, 19 Jul 2025 05:52:30 -0000

a const up

Caolán McNamara created merge request #1 on Code

Caolán McNamara — Fri, 18 Jul 2025 19:44:16 -0000

a const up

Edward Mendelson posted a comment on discussion Help

Edward Mendelson — Fri, 07 Mar 2025 20:27:59 -0000

I've posted a bash script that builds static-linked macOS executables for libwpd under macOS: https://github.com/emendelson/libwpd-build-macos/tree/main I hope someone finds it useful.

Fridrich Strba modified ticket #27

Fridrich Strba — Fri, 16 Aug 2024 07:39:54 -0000

Missing cstdint include in libodfgen's src/OdfGenerator.cxx

Fridrich Strba posted a comment on ticket #27

Fridrich Strba — Fri, 16 Aug 2024 07:39:30 -0000

Integrated

Fridrich Strba committed [4da0b1] on libodfgen

Fridrich Strba — Fri, 16 Aug 2024 07:38:19 -0000

Missing include

Sam James posted a comment on ticket #27

Sam James — Thu, 15 Aug 2024 20:27:03 -0000

Patch attached.

Sam James created ticket #27

Sam James — Thu, 15 Aug 2024 20:26:00 -0000

Missing cstdint include in libodfgen's src/OdfGenerator.cxx

Fridrich Strba committed [67938e] on Code

Fridrich Strba — Fri, 26 Jul 2024 19:25:45 -0000

Update NEWS

Fridrich Strba modified ticket #26

Fridrich Strba — Fri, 26 Jul 2024 19:18:52 -0000

WPDocument::isFileFormatSupported returns WPD_CONFIDENCE_EXCELLENT for an HTML with éééé

Fridrich Strba posted a comment on ticket #26

Fridrich Strba — Fri, 26 Jul 2024 19:18:52 -0000

https://sourceforge.net/p/libwpd/code/ci/bc3050ad804b4f9f60ccfaf425f469fc095033dc/

Fridrich Strba posted a comment on ticket #26

Fridrich Strba — Fri, 26 Jul 2024 19:17:44 -0000

https://sourceforge.net/p/libwpd/code/ci/bc3050ad804b4f9f60ccfaf425f469fc095033dc/

Fridrich Strba committed [bc3050] on Code

Fridrich Strba — Fri, 26 Jul 2024 19:12:55 -0000

Besides plain text documents, try to reject a documents that only contain valid utf-8

Fridrich Strba committed [ea6589] on Code

Fridrich Strba — Fri, 26 Jul 2024 19:12:55 -0000

Fix a debug build

Fridrich Strba committed [213609] on Code

Fridrich Strba — Fri, 26 Jul 2024 19:12:55 -0000

Make work with newer astyle

Mike Kaganski created ticket #26

Mike Kaganski — Fri, 26 Jul 2024 06:35:43 -0000

WPDocument::isFileFormatSupported returns WPD_CONFIDENCE_EXCELLENT for an HTML with éééé

Edward Mendelson posted a comment on ticket #25

Edward Mendelson — Wed, 20 Dec 2023 13:33:49 -0000

I finally got around to filing a bug with LibreOffice, where it's most likely to get attention: https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=158793

Edward Mendelson modified a comment on ticket #25

Edward Mendelson — Sun, 03 Dec 2023 04:02:58 -0000

You are right. Libwpd contains a WP4.x parser, but it doesn't seem to handle extended characters correctly, and the file libwpd_internal.cpp has a table of WP42 extended characters, but wpd2odt and LibreOffice do not (as you say) seem to use it correctly. The table seems to be correct, but it seems that wpd2odt doesn't correctly recognize WP4.2 files - and that isn't surprising, because the only way to do so would be to scan the file for some specific codes that may not be there at all.

Edward Mendelson modified a comment on ticket #25

Edward Mendelson — Sun, 03 Dec 2023 03:59:21 -0000

Edward Mendelson posted a comment on ticket #25

Edward Mendelson — Sun, 03 Dec 2023 03:04:44 -0000

Libwpd doesn't try to convert WPDOS 4.x documents, and there's almost no way for LibreOffice to recognize that a file is a WP 4.x file, becuase it won't have a file header that identifies it. The only current applications that can open these correctly is probably WordPerfect for Windows, and it will prompt you to confirm that the file is a WP 4.2 file.

Peter Janes created ticket #25

Peter Janes — Mon, 30 Oct 2023 16:26:46 -0000

French accented characters not converted correctly

Edward Mendelson posted a comment on ticket #22

Edward Mendelson — Fri, 19 May 2023 12:21:49 -0000

This is correct now. Thank you. I think it can be applied to LibreOffice now...

Fridrich Strba posted a comment on ticket #22

Fridrich Strba — Fri, 19 May 2023 06:47:09 -0000

Actually, I am the one confused. Most likely, I ran the "make astyle" with unsaved changes and reloaded the file afterwards. Now it should be ok.

Fridrich Strba committed [0d61d2] on Code

Fridrich Strba — Fri, 19 May 2023 06:43:14 -0000

another attempt to fix this correctly

Edward Mendelson posted a comment on ticket #22

Edward Mendelson — Fri, 19 May 2023 00:55:44 -0000

I may have may things confusing; if so, I apologize. The latest commit doesn't correct line 808 of libwpd_internal.cpp. The line should read: 0x03a8, 0x03c8, 0x03a9, 0x03c9, 0x03ac, 0x03ad, 0x03ae, 0x03af, Notice that the seventh code is 0x03ae, NOT 0x03a5 as it is now. This is the only thing that needs to be changed. Thank you for this!

Fridrich Strba committed [deca29] on Code

Fridrich Strba — Thu, 18 May 2023 15:27:05 -0000

Revert a part of commit introducing error already fixed

Edward Mendelson posted a comment on ticket #22

Edward Mendelson — Thu, 18 May 2023 12:37:51 -0000

Thank you! One character is now incorrect, because the code before the old commit had an error that was later fixed. To clarify, the second of the three changed lines should NOT have the change from 0x03ae to 0x03a5 shown below: 0x03a8, 0x03c8, 0x03a9, 0x03c9, 0x03ac, 0x03ad, 0x03ae, 0x03af, <--CORRECT 0x03a8, 0x03c8, 0x03a9, 0x03c9, 0x03ac, 0x03ad, 0x03a5, 0x03af, <-- WRONG The other two changed lines now have the correct code. I built your latest commit under macOS and can confirm that only one...

Fridrich Strba posted a comment on ticket #22

Fridrich Strba — Thu, 18 May 2023 04:49:20 -0000

I reverted the commit. Please verify whether this did not change a character that was correct to something wrong.

Fridrich Strba committed [1fe11d] on Code

Fridrich Strba — Thu, 18 May 2023 04:37:31 -0000

Document the revert

Fridrich Strba committed [110a80] on Code

Fridrich Strba — Thu, 18 May 2023 04:37:31 -0000

Fix tdf#153034: Three wrong Greek characters in WordPerfect 5 import

Edward Mendelson posted a comment on discussion Help

Edward Mendelson — Sat, 29 Apr 2023 18:30:29 -0000

For what it's worth, I've posted a guide to building the libwpd/libwpg/writerperfect executables under Windows: http://www.columbia.edu/~em36/wpdos/libwpd.html Notice that the address begins with "http://" If you get a 404 error, that's because your browser changes http:// to https:// Change it back to http:// and the page will open.

Edward Mendelson modified a comment on ticket #22

Edward Mendelson — Mon, 17 Apr 2023 21:23:26 -0000

I've done some further testing, and the change definitely should be reverted, because it substituted the correct characters with characters that would print in an obsolete program that got it wrong. Both Corel (in current WordPerfect for Windows) and Microsoft (with its WP import filter) use the original mapping that got changed incorrectly. Here is a WordPerfect for DOS 5.1 file with the four relevant characters: https://www.dropbox.com/s/hogzhfhx4ulm8wr/GREEKWP5.WP?dl=0 Here is the same file opened...

alonso laurent modified ticket #24

alonso laurent — Mon, 17 Apr 2023 07:50:39 -0000

libwpg: fix configure.ac to build in Windows

alonso laurent posted a comment on ticket #24

alonso laurent — Mon, 17 Apr 2023 07:50:24 -0000

Thank, I just commit 29244c855c26f6a7e699ffe8fa313b026a57c6d4 to correct this problem

alonso laurent modified ticket #23

alonso laurent — Mon, 17 Apr 2023 07:45:48 -0000

Trying to build under Windows

alonso laurent posted a comment on ticket #23

alonso laurent — Mon, 17 Apr 2023 07:45:36 -0000

After personal discussions, the problem seems to concern libwpg, so I closed this ticket.

Edward Mendelson modified a comment on ticket #22

Edward Mendelson — Sat, 15 Apr 2023 18:49:22 -0000

Edward Mendelson created ticket #24

Edward Mendelson — Sat, 15 Apr 2023 17:50:32 -0000

libwpg: fix configure.ac to build in Windows

Edward Mendelson posted a comment on ticket #22

Edward Mendelson — Sat, 15 Apr 2023 17:23:49 -0000

Edward Mendelson posted a comment on ticket #23

Edward Mendelson — Fri, 14 Apr 2023 20:15:56 -0000

Update: thanks to the generous and patient help of Laurent Alonso, I was able to build WriterPerfect 0.9.6 under both MinGW and Cygwin. I needed to make three changes in the source code, and will post a patch when I've got the details correct.

Edward Mendelson posted a comment on ticket #23

Edward Mendelson — Thu, 13 Apr 2023 14:29:27 -0000

I get the same error message when I try to configure in cygwin and WSL Ubuntu. Is it possible that something is wrong in the code? Has anyone built current libwpd for Windows?

Edward Mendelson created ticket #23

Edward Mendelson — Wed, 12 Apr 2023 15:35:20 -0000

Trying to build under Windows

WordPerfect Document importer released /librevenge/librevenge-0.0.5/librevenge-0.0.5.tar.bz2

WordPerfect Document importer — Thu, 29 Dec 2022 15:13:04 -0000

WordPerfect Document importer released /librevenge/librevenge-0.0.5/librevenge-0.0.5.tar.xz

WordPerfect Document importer — Thu, 29 Dec 2022 15:13:04 -0000

WordPerfect Document importer released /librevenge/librevenge-0.0.5/librevenge-0.0.5.tar.gz

WordPerfect Document importer — Thu, 29 Dec 2022 15:13:04 -0000

WordPerfect Document importer released /librevenge/librevenge-0.0.5/README

WordPerfect Document importer — Thu, 29 Dec 2022 15:12:03 -0000

David Tardon committed [885c8c] on librevenge

David Tardon — Thu, 29 Dec 2022 15:11:03 -0000

add an empty line

David Tardon committed [042dc2] on librevenge

David Tardon — Thu, 29 Dec 2022 15:10:31 -0000

bump micro version

David Tardon committed [1a823f] on librevenge