On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 10:54 AM, Jürgen Schmidt <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > OpenOffice is not only used as desktop application but also as hidden > part of other software and often as a conversion engine in the backend. > > OpenOffice has very good filters for many file formats and the usage as > a conversion engine is straight forward. And the conversion from one > format into another can be improved and optimized by some special > handling of parts of the document. > > For example external linked parts can be ignored and don't have to be > loaded during conversion, embedded images can be simply copied etc. > > I would like to improve AOO for this kind of usage by introducing a new > parameter "-conversionmode". It's not comparable with the command line > parameter "-headless" or the "hidden" property for loadComponentFromUrl(). > > The intention of this new global option is to have it available > everywhere in the underlying code to optimize the performance of the > conversion. >
It is an interesting idea. Perhaps in the future it could be combined with a #define and its own makefile so we could compile the project for this purpose specifically, perhaps having a smaller memory footprint. Or do you think you can get most of the benefit with run-time flags alone? -Rob > This should have no influence/impact on the normal workflow but will > help to make AOO potentially more attractive for backend usage. Means it > will help to grow the broader eco-system around AOO. > > Juergen > >
