26 Dec
2009
26 Dec
'09
4:19 p.m.
On 12/25/2009 09:45 PM, Asiri Rathnayake wrote:
Hi Devs& Users,
With the new refactoring of officeimporter module, it's possible to
implement a generic office document converter on top of
xwiki-officeimporter. By a "document converter" I meant an xwiki application
where you can upload a .doc file and get it converted to a .pdf, .odt etc.
Supported formats will be those mentioned in
http://artofsolving.com/opensource/jodconverter/guide/supportedformats and
few more Office2007 formats.
Would this application be a good addition to XWiki?
Interesting feature: I like the way GMail treats attachments. We could
have something similar in the attachment list. Each supported file
format will have some links next to the default download link, for
previewing as HTML, downloading as PDF, converting to the equivalent
concurrent format. For example. we could have:
[doc] QuarterlyReport.doc ^1.2^ [preview in browser] [download as PDF]
[download as .odt]
Posted by [John Smith] five minutes ago
[ods] ExpenseReport.ods ^1.1^ [preview in browser] [download as PDF]
[download as .xls]
Posted by [Jane Smith] yesterday
However, we should carefully consider the implications, since users
could expect this to be a perfect feature they can trust, and data loss
could occur when the transformation fails partially.
Thanks.
- Asiri
PS: It would take about 2-3 days to fully implement and test the
application.
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Sergiu Dumitriu
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