You are quite correct in that Words, Sheets and Stage can’t say to anything but 
ODF formats. The only format besides that is pdf and I think .txt neither of 
which is what people think of when talking about saving.

 

If it says Words can save to Word then it is to rtf when leaves a lot to be 
desired. Plan doesn’t save explicitly as it saves automatically all the time.

 

So there is free reign as to getting more saving support in. Saving to other 
formats is done through what we call filters. They take an .odf file and 
convert it to a target format file. So it’s rather independent of the rest of 
Calligra. That said there are some helper libraries, and something else to note 
is that we would prefer to not pull in any big dependencies.

 

Best regards

Camilla

 

From: calligra-devel [mailto:calligra-devel-boun...@kde.org] On Behalf Of Ryein 
Goddard
Sent: 16. maj 2016 23:41
To: Calligra Suite developers and users mailing list <calligra-devel@kde.org>
Subject: Re: working on saving to multiple formats

 

In 16.04 calligra can save to word in words, author. Sheets can't yet though. 
From what I can see Brain Dump doesn't save at all. Plan still needs saving 
functionality for word.

 

I haven't gotten a source version built because I wanted to talk with you all 
first to check.  I'd really love to help getting Kubuntu to a fully pure Qt/KDE 
state.  

 

On Mon, May 16, 2016 at 3:10 AM, Jaroslaw Staniek <stan...@kde.org 
<mailto:stan...@kde.org> > wrote:

 

 

On 16 May 2016 at 00:53, Ryein C. Goddard <ry...@goddardlabs.com 
<mailto:ry...@goddardlabs.com> > wrote:

I was speaking with some folks on the kubuntu forum and they said the reason
they didn't go with Calligra was because it cannot save to multiple file
formats.

 

​Calligra supports multiple formats in the Save As dialog.. Could you be more 
specific? 
Maybe it means level of support?

On the other hand we know that availability and timing for updates in _Ubuntu_ 
in general is rather suboptimal.

Special cases, for example Kexi has better support for file formats than the 
Kubuntu's default -- Kexi directly supports MDB and does not drag Java 
dependencies to the desktop. Kubuntu's counterparts do not have these 
advantages.

 

 

Any reason for this?  Is this an area that needs extra developer help?

 

​Yes, always. ​

 

Scope of the challenge shows that such projects can be easily of the size of 
entire KDE. There's probably more of specifications to implement/maintain/test 
than in web browser projects.
​


Thanks
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