Automated Converting of Documents

SyNo · Newbie Joined: 08 Dec 2005 Posts: 3 Location: Bochum

Hi everybody,

i´m very new in devoloping OO. I read a lot of posts here
and a problem which allways comes up is the conversion
of different formats.

Most of them are XLS , PDF , DOC questions.

I would like to know if theres a tool that can realize that
without an open office running.
a "simple" standalone with an OO Base.

Or is there a macro for each Convert ? Can u tell me the Names of the Macros.
Or a project ?
I will try to build an application which handles every doc typ
and converts them automaticly.

I´m happy with every peace of information so please answer.
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Laurent Godard · Posted: Mon Dec 12, 2005 6:31 am Post subject:

Hi

handling all the formats, i think you'll need OOo. i'm not aware of such a standalone program (but may be wrong)

For some macros, you may have a look at
http://oooconv.free.fr/oooconv/oooconv_en.html
http://oooconv.free.fr/batchconv/batchconv_en.html

only deals with OOo 1.1 as i do not have time to upgrade them right now

Laurent

LarsB · Posted: Mon Dec 12, 2005 6:53 am Post subject: Dectecting document types

Hi,

as Laurent mentioned before, there's no tool that will
convert all document types without using a running OO
instance in the background.
You should read the Macro document by Andre Pitonyak
http://www.pitonyak.org/AndrewMacro.odt there's
a macro which detect the format of the current document.
I think this will be a good starting point.

If you plan to write a converter application without using
OO you would have to implement the whole Xml definitions
of all supported and on XML based document formats.
e. g. OpenDocument and the OpenOffice format are based
on such Xml definitions. The OpenDocument definiton
is about ~17000 lines!

Cheers
LarsB
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SyNo · Newbie Joined: 08 Dec 2005 Posts: 3 Location: Bochum

Great Work !
The Batch also works with OO 2.0.
If there are any problems i will tell you. Or i will add some options
to your project.

Thanks anyway Smile

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SyNo · Newbie Joined: 08 Dec 2005 Posts: 3 Location: Bochum

Thx Lars,

i´ll use the project from Laurent. As he can connect to the OO instance via php
it´s all that I need. Just some more Options to add.

And isn´t there a "library" for all those definitons ?
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LarsB · Posted: Mon Dec 12, 2005 7:22 am Post subject: No library

Hi,