see below

2008/10/17 Niels Mayer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

> Dragă Florin,
>
> A few preexisting systems to consider/look at:
> http://www.pdfonline.com/
>
> http://casesblog.blogspot.com/2005/08/blogger-for-word-publish-to-web-from.html
> http://www.openxmlcommunity.org/daisy/
>
> Unfortunately, when using Word for web-publishing directly, it seems to
> bloat the structured document terribly (
> http://www.uwec.edu/help/Webpub/wordweb.htm ); also there's issues with
> conversion to UTF-8 ( http://www.ljmu.ac.uk/cis/webpublishing/81434.htm )
> or
> foisting nonstandard charsets like Windows-1232 on web-viewers.
>
> Cutting/pasting between word and Xwiki, Roller or other rich-text capable
> web-editors seems to work nicely. It's too bad one can't automate the
> "cut/paste" of the data that flows through the windows GUI between Word and
> Web-Browser, but instead, directly saves an Xwiki doc... Maybe it's just a
> matter of having a service on the Xwiki-end that saves an RTF document as
> an
> Xwiki doc, combined with a simple plugin on the Word-end to invoke the
> data-translation which normally occurs during cut/paste.
>

I think this is the classical way of interacting between WORD and
heterogeneous servers: RTF...
I have never studied the question deeply but Doc format is really not
practical and proprietary with a mix of text and binary data...

I remind other wikis (such as confluence) propose such word plugins...
Does anyone know how they do?

Pascal


>
> On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 9:03 AM, Florin Ciubotaru <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >wrote:
>
> > Hi devs,
> >
> > I started writing an Add-in for Microsoft Word that could be a part of
> > our Office integration strategy.
> > In the next period I'm going to spend 50% of my time on developing this,
> > here at XWiki Romania.
> > The technology I use is  .NET + VSTO. Yes, I know that .NET it's not in
> > XWiki's area, but this technology is very powerfull and it can bring an
> > advantage for our platform.
> > Here is the design page:
> > http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Design/MicrosoftOfficeAddin
> > Please read it and give me some feedback.
> >
>
> --
> Niels
> http://nielsmayer.com
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