On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 15:39, Denis Gervalle <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 15:01, Thomas Mortagne 
> <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 14:23, Denis Gervalle <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > 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.
>> >>
>> >> WDYT ?
>> >>
>> >
>> > How do you expect to support customization of the generated output as we
>> > have currently the ability to use a PDFClass to change the default
>> behaviour
>> > ? (even if there is some issue due to the size of the XSLT)
>>
>> The part about customizing the XSL-FO is obviously not supported but
>> PDFClass.style is since it's about the xhtml content before it's
>> converted to XSL-FO.
>>
>> I could add something like PDFClass.xhtmlofficexsl to customize the
>> xhtml before exporting it like we have PDFClass.fopxsl to customize
>> XSL-FO content for  maybe if needed.
>>
>> And it's still possible to customize the xhtml by modifying pdf.vm of
>> course.
>>
>
> Well, this could implied the need to rewrite the XSLT.
> So I am +1, but with a parameter that choose to use FOP for PDF even when a
> OO server is available, and for compatibility to use that setting by
> default.
> PDF output through FOP will always be me customizable that through OO and

In that case maybe this proposal should probably be only about RTF.

> this is IMO a real feature that we should no hide for fixing RTF.
>
> Denis
>
>> >>
>> >> 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.
>> >>
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