MS Word document export

stephen barncard stephenREVOLUTION2 at barncard.com
Thu Jan 28 13:11:32 EST 2010


The shell is your friend.

Check out textutil  in the shell.  (man textutil)

Mac OSX 10.4. and onward has document conversion routines built into the
system. RTF, HTML, DOC, DOCX, WEBARCHIVE, ODT are some of the formats.

Someone (please identify one's self in one's demo stacks!) has uploaded to
REV ONLINE a very simple stack that demonstrates conversion to-from various
text formats using shell calls. However, REV ONLINE,  one of the most
difficult to navigate and unresponsive parts of the IDE, is completely down
today.  Contact me offline if you really need the stack, the author has
indicated he's giving it freely. However, the calls are so simple and well
documented that it could be a good exercise in getting a shell call to work
for you, just using the documentation.
-------------------------
Stephen Barncard
San Francisco
http://houseofcubes.com/disco.irev


On 27 January 2010 20:44, <dr.alistair at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Curry,
>
> I'd be interested in having a look at the beta of the word export. I am
> currently using merge() to create reports for an application that I am
> working on. A library to do this sort of stuff sounds like a really useful
> tool. I would like to use OpenOffice, by preference, so I'm interested in
> that too.
>
> Apart from trying it out, will I be bale to look at how you are writing the
> library. I'm not a very good programmer but if I can help I'd like to.
>
> cheers
>
> Alistair Campbell
> dr.alistair at gmail.com
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