On Wed, 2005-06-22 at 22:26 +0200, Christoph Sch?fer wrote: > Hmmm, I figure connecting scribus and UNO will be quite a bit of work > since UNO seems to be powerful but very complex.
It is, and it would be. Getting the basics going probably wouldn't be too bad though. I'll put "write a UNO Scribus plugin hello world" on my TODO list - but I doubt I'll get to it anytime soon. > Maybe an interim solution could be a stripped down version of OOo, using > only basic formatting, import filters, collaboration features (compare, > merge) and perhaps some database features for collaboration. I'd expect this to be WAY more complex and nastier than talking to OO.o over UNO, but for the project you mentioned below. > In fact, something like that already exists. It's called StarOffice 4 > Kids. You can see some screenshots here: > http://iug.uni-paderborn.de/Projekte/nutzware/staroffice4kids/de/ and > download here: http://so4k.kippdata.com/ > It's a stripped down version of StarOffice for use in primary schools, > and the source code is available. There even exist three German > equivalents of Masters thesises on the topic. That's a very interesting tool... thanks for pointing it out. -- Craig Ringer
