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/