Re: ODF Explorer
Thanks Jan, yeah, I think since it is user of the ODF Toolkit it is probably more suitable there. I hang around there but it is very quiet. Not sure how to progress it but will wait and see. On Sun, May 24, 2015 at 4:23 PM, jan i j...@apache.org wrote: Hi. I have had the chance of testing your tool earlier, and I see it as a handy tool. With my AOO hat on, I do not think it fits in the project. I do think it is a nice add-on for odf toolkit (which I am not involved in) and Corinthia. I will respond further on the corinthia dev list. rgds jan i. On 24 May 2015 at 06:53, Ian C i...@amham.net wrote: Hi All (cross posting to AOO and ODF Toolkit) I have, as part of a research project, created a tool named the ODF Explorer which is available for initial feedback. The thing is aimed at projects like Corinthia or any other ODF consumer/producer. It allows a user to see what is in an ODF document in terms of its structure. And it looks at a form of coverage analysis called production coverage. In short it ticks of which elements and attributes of the ODF schema have been used. It also shows the changes between documents as things are added. An example graph is attached. It is a filtered view of the headers.odt that Gabriela created. It processes text, spreadsheet, and presentation documents. It should be available via my dropbox account here https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/5407897/odfe.zip I intend to make the thing available as an open source once I get some feedback to confirm it at least does not go hugely wrong. Not quite sure how to go about that though. It is built around the Java Apache ODF Toolkit, and will require a 64 bit Java. I've not tried on 32 I'm just assuming it won't work ?? It is a Java program wrapped in Javascript to provide a user interface and so runs on both Linux (where it was developed) and Windows. If anyone picks it up and tries it on a Mac let me know. Before you can run it however, you need a couple of external things. Graphiz available via http://www.graphviz.org/Download.php this is used to draw graphs. It needs to be available on your command line. Confirm it is via dot -V (note the capital) And Node.JS available via https://nodejs.org/download/ It too needs to be available on your command line. npm -v to confirm. I have seen on Windows installs that you may need to create an npm directory in your AppData/Roaming directory before node.js works. And on other machines it installs just fine. I have a Linux system here. Once you have the two externals then unzip the odfe.zip to a directory of your choice. Open a command line and change to your selected odfe install directory (should see a package.json and an odfe.jar file there) And type npm start - it should say an http server has started on port 3000. Then open Firefox or Chrome - I tend to use Chrome. Not IE, it doesn't handle things well. And the url http://localhost:3000/app/index.html; should do the business for you. Each page has a green box in the top left hand corner to open a help page. Open the one on the first page and it should explain the beast. If it does not I have failed. And since I have been working on this beast for so long now there are probably so many things I am taking for granted. This initial release is pretty much to check it can be run outside of my little world and to get whatever comments I can. Let me know how it goes and hopefully you can see the use/relevance of such a tool. I will try to figure out how make it (and the source) more generally available to a wider audience once I am happy users can get it up and running. And if there is any interest in it. If you can think of others who would be able to comment then feel free to forward it to them. Many thanks for any and all feedback, which is gratefully accepted. -- Cheers, Ian C - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org -- Cheers, Ian C
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j_k_marshall_2004 Jason Marshall
Introduction
Hi My name is Jason Marshall. I am writing in order to introduce myself to the project in the first instance. I am aiming to contribute to the project from a development point of view, but would be interested in helping with testing and documentation. I am from Newcastle Upon Tyne in the United Kingdom and originally trained to degree level in Software Engineering in 2001. I then went on to work for the internal software house in British telecom for five years, which included roles such as developer, component designer and a little simple solution design. I worked heavily with extract, transform and load aspects of data warehousing, coding in PLSQL and Ab Initio. I would also inherently write Unix shell scripts, which I particularly enjoyed. I subsequently moved to some design and made us of the Unified Modelling Language. I have had some experience of ‘hot house' development. I also have experience with Java and C++, as well as the usual skills with HTML. I enjoy writing and working to document complex ideas so that they are accessible to everyone, hence my interest in documentation. I left IT in 2006 in order to retrain in a social science role and currently work in such a role for local government. However, I am aware that currently demand for IT professionals is high and I would like to re-enter the profession and so hope to be able to refresh my skills and experience, as well as giving something back and serving this project. I have been a long-time user of OpenOffice, having first installed it when I was handed a free CD by Sun Microsystems in 1999. Consequently, I have used OpenOffice for many years. Away from IT, I enjoy rowing, swimming and playing underwater hockey. I also love world cinema, as well as travelling in Europe. I am working through the orientation modules as well as embarking on the building process; due to having a day job and also looking to build on Windows 7 platform, this may take some time. Kind regards Jason
Re: Introduction
On Sun, May 24, 2015 at 7:41 AM, Jason Marshall j_k_marshall_2...@live.com wrote: Hi My name is Jason Marshall. I am writing in order to introduce myself to the project in the first instance. I am aiming to contribute to the project from a development point of view, but would be interested in helping with testing and documentation. I am from Newcastle Upon Tyne in the United Kingdom and originally trained to degree level in Software Engineering in 2001. I then went on to work for the internal software house in British telecom for five years, which included roles such as developer, component designer and a little simple solution design. I worked heavily with extract, transform and load aspects of data warehousing, coding in PLSQL and Ab Initio. I would also inherently write Unix shell scripts, which I particularly enjoyed. I subsequently moved to some design and made us of the Unified Modelling Language. I have had some experience of ‘hot house' development. I also have experience with Java and C++, as well as the usual skills with HTML. I enjoy writing and working to document complex ideas so that they are accessible to everyone, hence my interest in documentation. I left IT in 2006 in order to retrain in a social science role and currently work in such a role for local government. However, I am aware that currently demand for IT professionals is high and I would like to re-enter the profession and so hope to be able to refresh my skills and experience, as well as giving something back and serving this project. I have been a long-time user of OpenOffice, having first installed it when I was handed a free CD by Sun Microsystems in 1999. Consequently, I have used OpenOffice for many years. Away from IT, I enjoy rowing, swimming and playing underwater hockey. I also love world cinema, as well as travelling in Europe. I am working through the orientation modules as well as embarking on the building process; due to having a day job and also looking to build on Windows 7 platform, this may take some time. Kind regards Jason Welcome Jason and thank you for this nice introduction. I'm sure ou can find help with building on Windows 7 from this dev list. -- - MzK We can all sleep easy at night knowing that somewhere at any given time, the Foo Fighters are out there fighting Foo. -- David Letterman
Re: ODF Explorer
Hi. I have had the chance of testing your tool earlier, and I see it as a handy tool. With my AOO hat on, I do not think it fits in the project. I do think it is a nice add-on for odf toolkit (which I am not involved in) and Corinthia. I will respond further on the corinthia dev list. rgds jan i. On 24 May 2015 at 06:53, Ian C i...@amham.net wrote: Hi All (cross posting to AOO and ODF Toolkit) I have, as part of a research project, created a tool named the ODF Explorer which is available for initial feedback. The thing is aimed at projects like Corinthia or any other ODF consumer/producer. It allows a user to see what is in an ODF document in terms of its structure. And it looks at a form of coverage analysis called production coverage. In short it ticks of which elements and attributes of the ODF schema have been used. It also shows the changes between documents as things are added. An example graph is attached. It is a filtered view of the headers.odt that Gabriela created. It processes text, spreadsheet, and presentation documents. It should be available via my dropbox account here https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/5407897/odfe.zip I intend to make the thing available as an open source once I get some feedback to confirm it at least does not go hugely wrong. Not quite sure how to go about that though. It is built around the Java Apache ODF Toolkit, and will require a 64 bit Java. I've not tried on 32 I'm just assuming it won't work ?? It is a Java program wrapped in Javascript to provide a user interface and so runs on both Linux (where it was developed) and Windows. If anyone picks it up and tries it on a Mac let me know. Before you can run it however, you need a couple of external things. Graphiz available via http://www.graphviz.org/Download.php this is used to draw graphs. It needs to be available on your command line. Confirm it is via dot -V (note the capital) And Node.JS available via https://nodejs.org/download/ It too needs to be available on your command line. npm -v to confirm. I have seen on Windows installs that you may need to create an npm directory in your AppData/Roaming directory before node.js works. And on other machines it installs just fine. I have a Linux system here. Once you have the two externals then unzip the odfe.zip to a directory of your choice. Open a command line and change to your selected odfe install directory (should see a package.json and an odfe.jar file there) And type npm start - it should say an http server has started on port 3000. Then open Firefox or Chrome - I tend to use Chrome. Not IE, it doesn't handle things well. And the url http://localhost:3000/app/index.html; should do the business for you. Each page has a green box in the top left hand corner to open a help page. Open the one on the first page and it should explain the beast. If it does not I have failed. And since I have been working on this beast for so long now there are probably so many things I am taking for granted. This initial release is pretty much to check it can be run outside of my little world and to get whatever comments I can. Let me know how it goes and hopefully you can see the use/relevance of such a tool. I will try to figure out how make it (and the source) more generally available to a wider audience once I am happy users can get it up and running. And if there is any interest in it. If you can think of others who would be able to comment then feel free to forward it to them. Many thanks for any and all feedback, which is gratefully accepted. -- Cheers, Ian C - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
