17 Oct
2008
17 Oct
'08
9:26 a.m.
see below
2008/10/17 Niels Mayer <nielsmayer(a)gmail.com>
Dragă Florin,
A few preexisting systems to consider/look at:
http://www.pdfonline.com/
http://casesblog.blogspot.com/2005/08/blogger-for-word-publish-to-web-from.…
http://www.openxmlcommunity.org/daisy/
Unfortunately, when using Word for web-publishing directly, it seems to
bloat the structured document terribly (
http://www.uwec.edu/help/Webpub/wordweb.htm ); also there's issues with
conversion to UTF-8 ( http://www.ljmu.ac.uk/cis/webpublishing/81434.htm )
or
foisting nonstandard charsets like Windows-1232 on web-viewers.
Cutting/pasting between word and Xwiki, Roller or other rich-text capable
web-editors seems to work nicely. It's too bad one can't automate the
"cut/paste" of the data that flows through the windows GUI between Word and
Web-Browser, but instead, directly saves an Xwiki doc... Maybe it's just a
matter of having a service on the Xwiki-end that saves an RTF document as
an
Xwiki doc, combined with a simple plugin on the Word-end to invoke the
data-translation which normally occurs during cut/paste.
I think this is the classical way of interacting between WORD and
heterogeneous servers: RTF...
I have never studied the question deeply but Doc format is really not
practical and proprietary with a mix of text and binary data...
I remind other wikis (such as confluence) propose such word plugins...
Does anyone know how they do?
Pascal
On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 9:03 AM, Florin Ciubotaru <florinciu(a)gmail.com
wrote:
Hi devs,
I started writing an Add-in for Microsoft Word that could be a part of
our Office integration strategy.
In the next period I'm going to spend 50% of my time on developing this,
here at XWiki Romania.
The technology I use is .NET + VSTO. Yes, I know that .NET it's not in
XWiki's area, but this technology is very powerfull and it can bring an
advantage for our platform.
Here is the design page:
http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Design/MicrosoftOfficeAddin
Please read it and give me some feedback.
--
Niels
http://nielsmayer.com
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