Hi Cor, Cor Nouws wrote:
> Hi Vikas, > > VIKAS JAIN schreef: >> how to import a writer file into impress in OPEN OFFICE.... > > Copy in Writer and Edit|Paste special in Impress. > > Also in Writer: File|Send|Outline to presentation > (however this seems to crash in 2.3) I think that was more a question about how to implement a filter. As I brought up the idea let me put it into context: the original question was how to implement a PPT export for Writer. I don't think that this is a good idea as Writer is about flow text and PPT files use slides, but let's put that aside for the moment. Unfortunately the OP also didn't tell us why (he thinks that?) he needs this. If you really wanted to have something like that it would be easier and perhaps even less useless ;-) to do it the other way around and import an odt file into Impress or first to load the Writer file as usual and then copy its content into an impress document via API. One could do it the hard way and implement a filter. But I'm afraid this is something I can't explain in a few sentences in a mailing list. But if Draw/Impress provided the "internal clipboard" API that Writer and Calc already support I would do it the following way: select some paragraphs or a whole page in a Writer document via API retrieve this as a "Transferable" object (internal clipboard API) create new slide in Impress document via API paste Transferable object into the slide (internal clipboard API) continue until end of Writer document This process simulates what happens when you manually copy/paste the stuff. It would be a simple and straightforward process that can work quite well if you have a Writer document with simple text only and where its text can be split into slide-compatible pieces. But for anything else this functionality wouldn't make much sense anyway ... Unfortunately first the Draw/Impress team needed to be convinced that it is time to implement the missing interface. ;-) That BTW would enable other developers to implement a nice multi clipboard extension for OOo. Ciao, Mathias -- Mathias Bauer (mba) - Project Lead OpenOffice.org Writer OpenOffice.org Engineering at Sun: http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS Please don't reply to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]". I use it for the OOo lists and only rarely read other mails sent to it. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
