MS Word document export

François Chaplais francois.chaplais at mines-paristech.fr
Thu Jan 28 16:52:11 EST 2010


rev online is back. The stack is "Textutil" in the "Text" category. Works really cool.... I tested Doc (basic text) and webarchive import. The text is there. The links in the webarchive are lost, but h**l, it's a freebie!

Le 28 janv. 2010 à 19:11, stephen barncard a écrit :

> 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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