OpenDocument translator

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Wouldn’t it be a good idea to add OpenDocument translator(s) to the Haiku?

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Yes, but first we need a word processor that can handle all its features. :^)

–DarkWyrm

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Perhaps someone could create a viewer, like wordviewer. No editing just viewing.
With translators for ODF, MS Word, StarOffice, OpenOffice, WordPerfect … :slight_smile:

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asedin wrote:
Perhaps someone could create a viewer, like wordviewer. No editing just viewing. With translators for ODF, MS Word, StarOffice, OpenOffice, WordPerfect ........ :)
Yea, thaz one thing i REALLY wish to see...

As OO.o is being ported to Be anyways, so i guess we can see a capable word processor soon ^^

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asedin wrote:
Perhaps someone could create a viewer, like wordviewer. No editing just viewing. With translators for ODF, MS Word, StarOffice, OpenOffice, WordPerfect ........ :)

RTF, HTML, PDF, etc… As pointed out by several persons in the industry - it makes a lot of sense to write plugins for major web browsers to be able to render common document formats for readonly viewing… it’s just a matter of time.

I think we should have a "preview translator" if we don’t already - similar to what SkyOS has. Using this, anyone would be able to write a translator that renders to a BMP image or something similar… possibly even a format that supports text-selection for copying?

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Perhaps HAIKU could become a mentor at the next Google Summer of Code 2006, and propose this as an idea?

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umccullough wrote:
asedin wrote:
Perhaps someone could create a viewer, like wordviewer. No editing just viewing. With translators for ODF, MS Word, StarOffice, OpenOffice, WordPerfect ........ :)

RTF, HTML, PDF, etc… As pointed out by several persons in the industry - it makes a lot of sense to write plugins for major web browsers to be able to render common document formats for readonly viewing… it’s just a matter of time.

I think we should have a "preview translator" if we don’t already - similar to what SkyOS has. Using this, anyone would be able to write a translator that renders to a BMP image or something similar… possibly even a format that supports text-selection for copying?

There is odfReader for FireFox, http://www.alcoholicsunanimous.com/odfreader/ and it does work with BeOS.

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I can hardly wait for the OpenOffice port to be. I think that will be huge for the community.

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skyBurn7 wrote:
I can hardly wait for the OpenOffice port to be. I think that will be huge for the community.

ditto…talk about a serious boost to BeOS/Haiku! - we’ll get all sorts of people flocking to it just to see if the rumors are true!..

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asedin wrote:
Perhaps someone could create a viewer, like wordviewer. No editing just viewing. With translators for ODF, MS Word, StarOffice, OpenOffice, WordPerfect ........ :)

you don’t seem to get the idea of beos translators. they’re all about being written once, placed in the system and make every beos app able to handle specific formats. so no need for a application bringing its translators.

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g400 wrote:
asedin wrote:
Perhaps someone could create a viewer, like wordviewer. No editing just viewing. With translators for ODF, MS Word, StarOffice, OpenOffice, WordPerfect ........ :)

you don’t seem to get the idea of beos translators. they’re all about being written once, placed in the system and make every beos app able to handle specific formats. so no need for a application bringing its translators.

"I am" talking about a system wide translator, but for that to be usefull you need an application to interpret what the translator sends.
In this case the viewer would be StyledEdit, but currently its not good enough, hence the need for a new application.