MS Word document export

Christian Langers chris at whitelotus.on-rev.com
Sat Jan 30 03:40:42 EST 2010


Hi,

I listened to Stephen and added my name and email  into the stack's
script (Textutil.rev)....

Greets,

Christian


On 30/01/10 02:23, Bruce Pokras wrote:
> Maybe I am doing something wrong (but it is so simple, how could I?),
> but I am not seeing any output. I import a file (e.g. a text file) and
> I try to export it as a Word file (.doc). Nothing is created! I am on
> OS X 10.4.11 using Rev 4.0.
>
> On Jan 28, 2010, at 4:52 PM, François Chaplais wrote:
>
>> 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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