On Wed, 2 Apr 2008 12:23:31 +0100, David Pilling wrote: > > It may be possible to take the constituent parts of documents stored in > > the old-style directory format and put them together to make a new-style > > single file document. > > There's a good chance that Impression itself wouldn't read these > > reconstituted documents, but Ovation Pro might be able to. > > I suppose I could answer that by looking at the source code of the > Impression filter. The two formats must be similar for me to have been able > to load both using the same piece of code. However since you can load > directory format documents already what would be the point turning them > into files. OK, I thought there was some problem with loading directory format documents into the Windows version of Ovation Pro. > If you want something to worry about... my filter only loads the latest > (last) Impression file format. There are older formats. > > Given the way things went, about 4 years development during which the file > format changed and then 16 years in which nothing happened, most stuff is > in the last format. I have a feeling that there are probably many documents in older formats that aren't publically available now, but may need to be read at some point in the future. Certainly, I found it difficult to find examples of Impression Junior documents online. > 5000 years hence are archaeologists going to pick through all this stuff > the way they do through shopping lists written on cuniform clay tablets in > 3000BC. The messages in this mailing list or the documents themselves? ;-) David To unsubscribe or subscribe goto: //www.freelists.org/list/davidpilling