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Posted to dev@forrest.apache.org by "Ross Gardler (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org> on 2006/03/31 11:02:39 UTC
[jira] Commented: (FOR-746) Integrate MSWord content in Forrest
[ http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FOR-746?page=comments#action_12372654 ]
Ross Gardler commented on FOR-746:
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I have a local plugin that uses OOo to convert the MS Word document to OOo and then uses the OOo plugin to convert to Forrest. It works, but it as code in it that cannot be committed to Forrest due to license issues.
I am willing to donate this code to anyone who needs it (under the most permissive license legally possible - which will be Open Source), even more willing if they would provide a home for it at somewhere like Sourceforge.
> Integrate MSWord content in Forrest
> -----------------------------------
>
> Key: FOR-746
> URL: http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FOR-746
> Project: Forrest
> Type: New Feature
> Components: Plugins: Potential new
> Reporter: Ross Gardler
> Priority: Minor
>
> MS have a document and some stylesheets for converting WordXML to XSL-FO.
> Could be useful.
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/odc_wd2003_ta/html/OfficeWordWordMLtoXSL-FO.asp
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> Alternative approach, which works for all version of MS Office, is to use OOo as a server to convert to OOo and then use the OOo plugin.
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Re: [jira] Commented: (FOR-746) Integrate MSWord content in Forrest
Posted by Ross Gardler <rg...@apache.org>.
Paul Bolger wrote:
> That'd be extremely useful to me Ross. I'm running a small (sub) site
> which uses MS Word docs as source. At present - having not worked out
> the command line Office conversions, and with Ooo's diminishing
> support for the old swx format, I'm stuck with manually converting the
> docs into swx.
I've sent the code offlist. I've not used it for some time, so it may
need a little tweaking. We should discuss it here until it finds a home.
> Would a way around the license issues be to present it
> as a 'cookbook' - not include the proprietory code?
We could certain put it into the whiteboard with instructions on how to
install it. The code is all jar files from OOo and since OOo need to be
on the machine in order for the plugin to work there is no reason why we
couldn't have the Ant build script bring them into the right location.
I never thought of that, funny how a simple question leads to a simple
solution. Problem is, I'm not able to find the time for it right now.
Once you have tried it out and got it working and perhaps added a little
documetation (yes I'll answer questions). We can stip the OOo jars and
add it to whiteboard.
Ross
Re: [jira] Commented: (FOR-746) Integrate MSWord content in Forrest
Posted by Paul Bolger <pb...@gmail.com>.
That'd be extremely useful to me Ross. I'm running a small (sub) site
which uses MS Word docs as source. At present - having not worked out
the command line Office conversions, and with Ooo's diminishing
support for the old swx format, I'm stuck with manually converting the
docs into swx. Would a way around the license issues be to present it
as a 'cookbook' - not include the proprietory code?
On 31/03/06, Ross Gardler (JIRA) <ji...@apache.org> wrote:
> [ http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FOR-746?page=comments#action_12372654 ]
>
> Ross Gardler commented on FOR-746:
> ----------------------------------
>
> I have a local plugin that uses OOo to convert the MS Word document to OOo and then uses the OOo plugin to convert to Forrest. It works, but it as code in it that cannot be committed to Forrest due to license issues.
>
> I am willing to donate this code to anyone who needs it (under the most permissive license legally possible - which will be Open Source), even more willing if they would provide a home for it at somewhere like Sourceforge.
>
> > Integrate MSWord content in Forrest
> > -----------------------------------
> >
> > Key: FOR-746
> > URL: http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FOR-746
> > Project: Forrest
> > Type: New Feature
> > Components: Plugins: Potential new
> > Reporter: Ross Gardler
> > Priority: Minor
>
> >
> > MS have a document and some stylesheets for converting WordXML to XSL-FO.
> > Could be useful.
> > http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/odc_wd2003_ta/html/OfficeWordWordMLtoXSL-FO.asp
> > -----------------
> > Alternative approach, which works for all version of MS Office, is to use OOo as a server to convert to OOo and then use the OOo plugin.
>
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