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I took a few minutes today and hacked together a perl script that
wraps around wvHtml[1] and the existing Python distiller, and allows you to
fetch remote Microsoft Word documents (.rtf, .doc)and convert them into
Plucker format. It will probably not work on Windows systems right now, but
works fine on my Linux and Unix systems here in the tests I've run. I'll try
to get perl installed on my Windows images and clean it up in the next
release to work on Windows. It's not my native platform, so I don't run it.
The script is attached to this message, and any suggestions,
patches, features or rants are more than welcome in return. Feel free to hit
me up directly with more ideas or bugs you've found with it via email or
through the list.
Initially, this was only going to be used to locally test doing
remote conversions of different document types, and then I realized that
with a bit of modification, I could wrap it around the existing Python
distiller, and make it useful for Plucker users. Sure, you could just
download the remote .doc file to your system, run wvHtml on it, then
plucker-build across that, but this makes it much easier.
Make sure you have wvWare installed as well as Plucker, and adjust
the paths to them in the script accordingly. They are clearly marked. I've
tried to be as verbose as possible with my comments. If you don't have the
modules required, you'll have to install those, but they are on CPAN. It
should be a simple matter to simply run:
perl -MCPAN -e 'install Module::Name'
..to get them installed. Let me know if you run into troubles.
[1] wvWare homepage: http://www.wvware.com/
d.
perldoc -qa.j | perl -lpe '($_)=m("(.*)")'
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pl2doc.pl
Description: Perl program
