>>>>> John Nagle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (JN) wrote: >JN> There's CORBA, for example, and in theory >JN> you can script OpenOffice and Gnome via CORBA. But nobody does that. >JN> Exercise: write a Python program to convert a ".doc" file to a ".pdf" >JN> file by invoking OpenOffice via CORBA. At least in theory, this is >JN> possible. All the necessary parts supposedly exist. Somebody >JN> tried back in 2003, but gave up. See >JN> "http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2003-April/198094.html";
[Nitpicking] Scripting Openoffice.org (!) is with UNO, not Corba. -- Piet van Oostrum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> URL: http://www.cs.uu.nl/~piet [PGP 8DAE142BE17999C4] Private email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
