18 Jun
2010
18 Jun
'10
6:12 p.m.
On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 18:05, Sergiu Dumitriu <sergiu(a)xwiki.com> wrote:
On 06/18/2010 05:29 PM, Ludovic Dubost wrote:
That's for this kind of conversion i don't want to change anything to
the format exported in 2.4 ;) I let this for office exporter work that
will be done in 2.5.
Le 18/06/10 12:38, Thomas Mortagne a écrit :
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... 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
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