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OOO Filters
by MandrakeUser on Wednesday 12/Oct/2005, @03:31

Now that KOffice is using the OASIS format natively, would it be possible to reuse the OpenOffice excellent import/export filters from the MonopoliSt office ? Last time I asked, it was impossible, because the OO code was very convoluted and monolitic. Have they refactored stuff for OO 2.0 ? It would be beneficial for everyone, including them. If their filters could run as stand-alone processes, people could write scripts to transform all the documents in a large installation of MS office to OASIS, etc.

And for KOffice, many people who are not using it now could start using it immediately if this functionality (better interoperability with MS office documents) was available.

Any thoughts on this ?

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Re: OOO Filters
by Boudewijn Rempt on Wednesday 12/Oct/2005, @04:03

I'm sorry to have to say that the OOo filter code is still the same convoluted unintelligible mess that appears to directly poke stuff into the internal OOo datastructures that is has always been -- so, no, unless you want the type of solution where KOffice uses OOo automation to first convert an MS document to an OpenDocument document and then load that. But that would, of course, be horribly slow and hackish.

We need better filters, but that's one thing that's nearly impossible to achieve in ones copious spare time; you really have a couple of full-time people for that.

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Re: OOO Filters
by MandrakeUser on Wednesday 12/Oct/2005, @04:31

That's sad to hear. Hopefully they will consider cleaning up and refactoring for 3.0. There is a general consensus that both their code and their build system needs a major rewrite if they are to succeed in the long term. Just building OO is , by itself, a challenge. Not to mention porting, or trying to hack code into it.

The alternative would be to try to coordinate in FreeDesktop.org , or maybe within oasis, to write (maybe roll up sleeves and try to extract it from the OO mess) stand-alone filters (from/to different formats to/from oasis). Oh well, wishfull thinking. If people from KDE, Gnome, freedesktop.org, etc. pull together maybe this is attainable. I wish I had some time to help coding ...

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CommandLine OOO Filters
by Fast_Rizwaan on Wednesday 12/Oct/2005, @05:49

yes, a command-line OOo filters would be the solution.

It could allow non-ms office utilities to directly convert a .doc to .odt or (od?) so that other applications could use it.

I wish oo developers should consider a "Document viewer" and/or "Document Converter" commandline, so that other applications like abiword, kword, etc., could use ms filters to get a readable .odt or .odp or .ods file.

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Re: CommandLine OOO Filters
by gerd on Wednesday 12/Oct/2005, @09:48

hmm, but nodody at oo.o works on that tool... hmmm

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Re: CommandLine OOO Filters
by Macavity on Thursday 13/Oct/2005, @01:05

<mode=conspiracy>
Kind of makes you wonder.. is it World Domination (TM) they are after? If people have to load up the entire OO to convert documents, then why would they need "crummy little koffice"? ;-)
</mode>

But speaking of this.. the a2ps (anything-to-postscript) is a killer app! If we eventually got a "a2od" product, this would make life a whole heck of a lot better for everyone (except M$ ;-). Being able to convert even dvi, pdf, wpd and the more exotic formats to OpenDocument too with a right-click maneuver on both GNU/Linux and win32 could speed up the transition quite a bit... or do you all think I'm barking up the wrong tree? :P

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Re: OOO Filters
by marcodefreitas on Saturday 26/Nov/2005, @00:15

Try this one:
http://visioo-writer.tuxfamily.org/EN/

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