[xwiki-devs] [PROPOSAL] Use openoffice server when its enabled to do PDF/RTF export

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. -- Thomas Mortagne