[xwiki-devs] [Idea] A generic document converter (xwiki-office-converter) on top of xwiki-officeimporter
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? Thanks. - Asiri PS: It would take about 2-3 days to fully implement and test the application.
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.
-- Sergiu Dumitriu http://purl.org/net/sergiu/
Hi, On Sat, Dec 26, 2009 at 4:19 PM, Sergiu Dumitriu <[email protected]> wrote:
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/supportedformatsand 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.
I like the Gmail-like idea too and it would indeed be a cool addition. Another interesting thing to do would be to let the user export any wiki page in the Office format of his / her choice. Instead of uploading a document, why not simply export an existing wiki page? If that's can be done it could be useful, I think many people would like to be able to export wiki pages in the .doc or .odt format. Guillaume
Thanks.
- Asiri
PS: It would take about 2-3 days to fully implement and test the application.
-- Sergiu Dumitriu http://purl.org/net/sergiu/ _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
-- Guillaume Lerouge Product Manager - XWiki SAS Skype: wikibc Twitter: glerouge http://guillaumelerouge.com/
Hi,
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.
I like the Gmail-like idea too and it would indeed be a cool addition.
Another interesting thing to do would be to let the user export any wiki page in the Office format of his / her choice. Instead of uploading a document, why not simply export an existing wiki page?
If that's can be done it could be useful, I think many people would like to be able to export wiki pages in the .doc or .odt format.
Yup, these are definite possibilities. I wish if I could spend a week on this ;) There was a university student working on a office-exporter project for XWiki but not sure of it's status. I'll point him into this thread and see. Thanks. - Asiri
Guillaume
Thanks.
- Asiri
PS: It would take about 2-3 days to fully implement and test the application.
-- Sergiu Dumitriu http://purl.org/net/sergiu/ _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
-- Guillaume Lerouge Product Manager - XWiki SAS Skype: wikibc Twitter: glerouge http://guillaumelerouge.com/ _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
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