On 06/18/2010 05:29 PM, Ludovic Dubost wrote: > Le 18/06/10 12:38, Thomas Mortagne a écrit : >> 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. >> >> > Why not use the opportunity to export to DOC instead/in addition of RTF. > It would be only support the DOC export param and add/replace one menu > to show DOC. > > We used RTF only because FOP only did RTF while what we really want is DOC > > Ludovic
Supporting .doc is a bit, well, late. I'm saying this because .docx should be the new and improved version, so a more relevant format would be .docx (Office Open XML). However, even Microsoft recognized that OOXML lost the battle with ODF, and the future format which will be supported by most tools seems to be ODF. And, in addition, .doc is a binary, proprietary and secret format, and we try to encourage open and/or standard formats. Yet, a large share of XWiki users are still using older versions of the MS Office suite, which makes .doc almost mandatory... -- Sergiu Dumitriu http://purl.org/net/sergiu/ _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
