Hi,

On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 12:38, Thomas Mortagne <[email protected]>wrote:

> Hi devs,
>
> Really fixing http://jira.xwiki.org/jira/browse/XWIKI-5251 as it is is
> a real pain, i.e. using FOP. That would need a XSLT wizard and anyway
> RTF support is not very good in FOP (according to FOP documentation).
> And seriously for a format like RTF it's a waste of time IMO.
>
> So what i propose for 2.4 is to do a small modification to PDF/RTF
> exporter to use openoffice server when it's connected. There is
> already everything needed for that in openoffice component which is
> used for office import currently.
>
> That would be a good POC for the future office exporter which will
> need a lot of refactoring and API to be clean. For this proposal I'm
> just modifying PdfExportImpl is a as clean as possible way to have
> this in 2.4.
>
> The only limitation currently is that OpenOffice does not really
> support XHTML and parse the content as it was HTML but since we have
> the same constraint with IE6 it's OK for now I guess. See
> http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=69635 for more.
>

+1, I thinks it would be a nice experiment and since the current RTF export
hardly works it's an improvement even if it's not perfect yet.

Guillaume

WDYT ?
>
> We should probably not show RTF export in the menu when openoffice
> server is not connected since it does not work at all even with empty
> content or remove the table generated by the XSLT filter for the
> cover.
>
> --
> Thomas Mortagne
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