On 10/20/06, John Henry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It's a whole mess of graphs - hundreds and thousands of them. In raw > form, it's just a whole bunch of eps files. Currently I am embedding > them into a bunch of doc files and use spreadsheet to hyperlink into > them. From each doc file, they can zoom in on individual graphs. > Sort of like a mini-static web server on CD.
My suggestion is to batch-convert the .eps into something useful like png (imagemagick works for this) and replace the docs/spreadsheets script with one that generates static html files. This would basically duplicate what you currently have but without the office overhead and provides a straightforward way of putting them online (stick them on a web server and password protect the directory with a .htaccess file) without much change in what you're doing and with relatively little to learn. I'd only worry about web frameworks and whatnot if you're doing something dynamic like generating a chart in response to a request from a user. > > One > > solution, for example, that hasn't been mentioned is webdav. You can > > theoretically deliver the same experience from webdav that you can > > with a CD (though you have to train people to connect to a webdav > > server). > > I'll look it up and see what that is. There are so many new things > happening *everyday* that it's hard to even know what's possible. (How > many framework do we have in Python?) Microsoft's client is 'web folders' and there are also office-specific features. In practice, most of the webdav stuff I've seen has been more like web folders and less like the read/write webpage stuff envisioned by the working group. > >Another option is web conversion through open office rather > > than straight conversion. > > How would that work? Like running Open Office straight over the web? I haven't done it myself, but I hear that it's usually easier to convert ooo docs to web pages than it is to convert ms docs, so people convert the .doc to a .otf and then convert the .otf to something readable on the web. > >There are too many options to reasonably > > list them all, so without knowing your requirements, we can't really > > tell you what you're looking for. > > I work for a very very conservative industry. They move extremely > slow. I am simply investigating what solution is possible but what > ever I come up with has to be something our industry will consider. As > I said, not too long ago, most of them would operate by simply printing > all these out and mail the paper-weights around. They got "modernized" > when they send the graphs as email attachments (!) I know of a lot of industries that have business apps built in excel and use email as the sole document collaboration tool. There are a lot of fun and interesting things happening in the web app space right now, but if static works for you, there's no sense in doing something fancy. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TurboGears" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/turbogears -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
