Word Processing Formats

[Jeff Cook]

The main thing that has stopped cold a few of my commercial projects in 
Panorama is the proprietary format of the word processor. It is critical 
that the software be able to import, display, and export in at least one 
of the standards such as ODT, XML, and/or RTF.

Other than Jim making the Word Processing Super Object use standard 
format (which I hope is in the plans), does anyone have any idea on a 
work around or a way to convert the WPSO format to one of the standards. 
Right now the only way that I have found to preserve the WPSO formatting 
for export is to print to PDF, but this is not a good way to send 
editable documents to others, and there is still no way to import any 
formatted text

As I recall the WPSO came from a third party. Might it be possible 
incorporate another module for word processing and/or XML viewing from 
some third party, such as an Open Source module or browser? I've started 
to look at http://opendocumentfellowship.com and 
http://bean-osx.com/Essay.html to look for ideas.

So any ideas on how to import/export and display formatted text other to 
program outside of Panorama?

Thanks,

Jeff Cook