On Jun 4, 2008, at 9:03 PM, Luis Arias wrote: > Hi everyone, > > Sorry to pop in, but I imagine you are aware of Mirko's JODConverter > and > JODReports: > > http://www.artofsolving.com/ > > If not I thought it might be useful in the context of your > discussion. His > code is used by Nuxeo, Alfresco, and others and is very simple to use. > JODCOnverter plugs into OO running in server mode.
Excellent! Thanks a lot Luis :) -Vincent > On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 8:37 PM, Vincent Massol <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > >> >> On Jun 4, 2008, at 8:33 PM, Sergiu Dumitriu wrote: >> >>> Vincent Massol wrote: >>>> On Jun 4, 2008, at 7:30 PM, Ludovic Dubost wrote: >>>> >>>>> I agree, >>>>> >>>>> First you need to package your code as an XWiki plugin that can be >>>>> called. >>>>> This plugin should have as many conversion possibilities. >>>>> >>>>> doc or office -> xhtml >>>>> xls -> xhtml >>>>> doc -> openoffice >>>>> openoffice ->doc >>>>> doc -> pdf >>>>> html -> pdf >>>>> etc.. >>>> >>>> hmm not sure. We only need xhtml I think since it's then the role >>>> of >>>> the XWiki HTML Parser to generate an internal DOM. Once we have >>>> that >>>> DOM we benefit from all the renderers (PDF, XHTML, RTF, Latex, >>>> etc). >>>> >>> >>> I second Vincent, for the moment the priority is to have wiki >>> documents. >>> But then I agree with Ludovic, that it would be better to convert >>> attachments to different formats using the OOo codebase. The pdf >>> export >>> done now affects only wiki documents, not attachments, and going >>> through >>> a long chain of conversions (.doc -> wiki -> xhtml -> xsl-fo -> pdf) >>> will only introduce possible problems at each conversion, while a >>> direct >>> conversion doc -> pdf using the (better) OOo code is simpler and >>> easier. >>> We can (and should) keep the current PDF export mechanism for wiki >>> documents, though. >> >> I think we should make the PDF export a secondary priority and get >> the >> rest working for now. Let's revisit it when all the rest is working >> fine. >> >> Thanks >> -Vincent >> >>>>> Concerning xls I think we should look into having an import that >>>>> does >>>>> not go through html >>>>> We might want to write xls to wiki table >>>>> >>> >>> +1 to this one, too. I think that direct data manipulation through >>> OOo >>> is better than reverse-engineering html, and not just for >>> spreadsheets, >>> but other types of documents. _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
