Hi, not sure to understand why you need to convert Write entries to html, but abiword has good formatting capabilities and is run in headless servers routinely.
The abiword people is a friendly bunch and can give you a hand with this. Good luck, Tomeu On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 2:20 PM, Greg Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > FYI all - I'm moving this back on the server list. I bcc'd all the > original thread people. I will try to keep all EduBlog design on the > list now unless it involves passwords. > > Hi Tarun, > > Interesting challenge, thanks for the background. I thought we would use > the journal to move things from Write to EduBlog (aka Browse). Is that > completely nailed and working with the new tweaked write version? > > If so, we don't need to solve this copy and paste via clipboard problem > you note below. I want to start Alpha ASAP and Beta on August 1. Let me > know if this is a blocker. > > Thanks, > > Greg S > > Tarun Pondicherry wrote: >> Hi Greg >>> Not sure what is needed in Write upload... can you describe? >> The issue is that the only format that contains the images that the >> libabiword version on 656 can export to is the AbiWord format (mime: >> application/x-abiword). I'm trying hard to find a PHP library to >> convert this to html, but have not been successful. Write is supposed >> to be able to export to xhtml, and rtf, but neither actually work. >> Similar issue with libabiword, which should support xhtml, rtf and odt, >> but none seem to work as far as I can tell. Thus, we need to parse the >> abiword file on the server. The option I am thinking of now as a >> temporary fix is to load the latest libabiword on the server and get it >> to convert the files since coding the abw-->xhtml conversion in PHP is >> highly non trivial. Copy and paste is linked to this issue. libabiword >> doesn't put the data on the clipboard in the correct format. >> >> I guess a good question is when is the exact deadline for starting the >> beta test? If we need to be done by August 1st, then I will try hard to >> atleast support basic formatting and images in some way (may be a bit >> sloppy) and clean it up later. >> >> Thanks, >> Tarun >> > _______________________________________________ > Server-devel mailing list > Server-devel@lists.laptop.org > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel > _______________________________________________ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
