From: Invincible Code <invincible.coder@...>
Date: 2007-02-20T02:57:09+09:00
Subject: Re: Doc to PDF/HTML converter plugins available in Ruby?

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Hi Hugh,

Thanks for the link. the project is certainly worth a watch.
but I would not like to have an extra overhead of taking care of installing
java, instead now I am looking for ruby integrations with openoffice api's.
Openoffice Api's have been integrated with Java and C++, but not with Ruby
yet. Some discussions have happened before on ruby talk for providing this
integration,
http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/92532 .... but
with no result :(.

On the way I came across, ooo4r which has not been updated for a while now.
http://rubyforge.org/projects/ooo4r/

Has anyone worked with accessing/modifying/converting documents of
openoffice programmatically from Ruby?


-Invincible









On 2/19/07, Hugh A. Cayless <hcayless@lulu.com> wrote:
>
> You might look at http://www.artofsolving.com/opensource/jodconverter
> which uses the OpenOffice API to run document conversions through
> it.  I used it in a project last year, and it seems to work quite
> well on Linux.  Since it runs as a web service, calling out to it
> from Ruby is straightforward.
>
> Hugh
>
> On Feb 19, 2007, at 8:29 AM, Invincible Code wrote:
>
> > I hope it works for Microsoft 2000 and onwards as well.
> >
> > btw I found a solution yesterday by using pdfcreator free utility
> > which
> > basically creats a virtual printer and lets me print my word
> > doccument to
> > the virtual printer which is nothing but a pdf target.
> > However this appraoch has following limitations,
> > 1. Works only on Windows machine.
> >
> > I am going to try out openoffice solution and see if it fits my needs.
> >
> > I appreciate all your help.
> > Thanks
> > Invincible
> >
> >
> >
> > On 2/19/07, Jason Mayer <slamboy@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> On 2/18/07, Invincible Code <invincible.coder@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> >
> >> > Aur, Thanks for the link!
> >> >
> >> > Regards
> >> > Jatinder
> >> >
> >> > On 2/19/07, Invincible Code <invincible.coder@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> > >
> >> > > I have got through following,
> >> > >
> >> > > http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/
> >> 165458
> >> > >
> >> > > Was there any other thread as well?
> >> > >
> >> > >
> >> > > -Invincible.
> >> > >
> >> > >
> >> > >
> >> > > On 2/19/07, SonOfLilit <sonoflilit@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> > > >
> >> > > > I recall something VERY similar being discussed on the list
> >> a few
> >> days
> >> > > > ago, have a search :-)
> >> >
> >>
> >> Ok, now that I've got a moment, here's an alternative using
> >> openoffice
> >> instead of MS Office. It's a nice printer friendly page as well.
> >>
> >> http://www.xml.com/lpt/a/1638
> >>
> >> apparently it works on .doc files made in office versions back
> >> through
> >> '97.
> >> I dunno if that'd be a better fit than the approach laid out by
> >> aur, but
> >> hey, I wanted to bring a real answer to the table :)
> >>
>
>
>

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