On Jun 18, 2010, at 4:51 PM, Asiri Rathnayake wrote: > Hi, > > Big +1. > > I also wanted to try out wiki page exporting using office importer api > (well, now it's more like office converter api). The interesting thing is > with openoffice we can convert html into many other formats (word, pdf, rtf > etc.). It would be interesting to find out the quality of these exports. > > Also we should think about dividing xwiki-officeimporter into sub-modules > like xwiki-officeconverter, xwiki-officeimporter and xwiki-officeexporter.
I think xwiki-office or xwki-openoffice might be enough to hold them all in a single module. We can have packages though. Thanks -Vincent > > Thanks. > > - Asiri > > On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 4:08 PM, 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 ? >> >> 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 _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
