Feature-proposal: Semi-automatic creation of presentationor writer-document
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From: Mike Scott on 1 Jun 2010 05:03 M. Fioretti wrote: > On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 12:14:59 PM -0800, hans nobody (hans01122(a)yahoo.de) wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> At work (where we unfortunately have to use MS Office), I have often >> the need to create a presentation or text-document made up by a >> couple of fotos with comments, to explain or document mechanical >> engineering problems. >> ... >> I'm wondering, if there is a plug-in/add-on or similar available for >> Open Office that would ease my work. Such a tool would save me (and >> for sure, many other office workers) a lot of time. > > Hans, > > in case you still have that need, you can surely do that kind of stuff > with shell and Perl scripts: just look at the "What's next" section of > http://freesoftware.zona-m.net/why-and-how-opendocument-format-can-save-you-lot-time > > If you can follow that approach, you don't even have to _have_ > OpenOffice installed, except, probably, to run it at the end of the > process, to convert the OpenDocument files to MS Office formats. > > The easyness with which everybody can do this kind of things with > OpenDocument is, in and by itself, enough of a reason to abandon MS > Office formats for good, in favor of OpenDocument > As you say, it's not that hard to do the coding. I just looked at http://ooolib.sourceforge.net. Unfortunately this project looks /extremely/ out of date, generating .sx* files, and is hardly a recommended starting point. But if the OP still has a desperate need, it might be worth a look. I don't suppose anyone has a more up-to-date version of this??? FWIW I have web page for automatic generation of service sheets for church. It generates a fully formatted OOo document from an original example (which defines the styles, etc) which has its xml modified by a perl script as appropriate. It's not exactly hard to do, although I admit my code is grubby rather than elegant :-). Subsequently, OOo macros allow optional pdf (or .doc) conversion (that's harder :-{ ) If the OP is still interested, I could supply example scripts for that and a certificate generator (used by my wife for her music pupils). (When I compare the ease of doing that with earlier attempts to generate rtf files, there's really no comparison. +1 to MF's closing paragraph.) -- Mike Scott --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: discuss-unsubscribe(a)openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: discuss-help(a)openoffice.org |