Re: commit: New AbiCommand feature - converttotext

From: msevior_at_physics.unimelb.edu.au
Date: Fri Dec 12 2003 - 10:08:28 EST

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    > Just out of curiousity, why do we need this, since we
    > already have:
    >
    > AbiWord --to=format file.doc?
    >

    Hi Dom,
           Two reasons.

    So we don't have the overhead of restarting Abiword while feeding 1000's
    of docs to it.

    Secondly apparently mono sucks at handling shell commands.

    Overall running AbiWord as a server is a much faster solution for bulk
    processing of many documents.

    I told the dashboard people about the --to=format commandline option and
    they asked me to turn abiword into a lib. I thought running abiword as a
    server was a better option and much easier to implement.

    Cheers

    Martin
    > Thanks,
    > Dom
    >
    > --- msevior_at_physics.unimelb.edu.au wrote:
    >> > En/na msevior_at_physics.unimelb.edu.au ha escrit:
    >> >
    >> >> CVS:
    >> >>
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    >> >> CVS:
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    >> >> CVS:
    >> >> CVS: Modified Files:
    >> >> CVS: xp/AbiCommand.cpp
    >> >> CVS:
    >> >>
    >>
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    >> >> New abicommand feature - converttotext.
    >> >>
    >> >> Usage from within AbiCommand:
    >> >>
    >> >> converttotext source dest
    >> >>
    >> >> Converts the word processor file <source> and
    >> converts to the plain text
    >> >> file
    >> >> <dest>
    >> >> If <dest> is ommitted the destination file is
    >> source.txt
    >> >>
    >> >> This is useful for indexing a users documents.
    >> Now we just need some
    >> >> clever IPC code to feed
    >> >> AbiWord-2.2 --plugin AbiCommand
    >> >>
    >> >> whatever file needs indexing.
    >> >>
    >> >> Over to you nadav!
    >> >>
    >> >> Cheers
    >> >
    >> > Do we need something special to make this work on
    >> non-unix platforms or is
    >> > complete XP code?
    >> >
    >> Hi Jordi,
    >>
    >> The AbiCommand plugin needs UnixNullGraphics which
    >> is Unix only. I *think*
    >> it might be possible to make it XP but at the time I
    >> wrote the code, there
    >> wasn't much interest in a command-line interface to
    >> AbiWord outside Unix.
    >> (and not much within the Unix users either...)
    >>
    >> It would be trivial to add another command line
    >> option to convert to any
    >> of the formats we can write to.
    >>
    >> With a bit of unix pipe magic we turn AbiWord into a
    >> server to transmute
    >> documents from any to any of our formats. We do
    >> this using Dom's ultra
    >> cool AP_Convert class and never have to build the
    >> layouts. With our speedy
    >> new piecetable methods, this is also very fast. This
    >> has many uses, the
    >> one being persued by nadav, me and the dashboard
    >> project is to index all a
    >> users documents based on content. A personal google
    >> for your desktop :-)
    >>
    >> > BTW, I finally fill up three bug reports with
    >> diferents documents that
    >> > make
    >> > Abi crash badly. I have more of those, but I want
    >> to wait until you guys
    >> > fix
    >> > these three.
    >> >
    >>
    >> I saw them thanks! I'll do a deal with you.
    >> Fix Windows HEAD so
    >> we can release 2.1.0 and I'll spend some time seeing
    >> why the docs
    >> crash :-)
    >>
    >> Cheers
    >>
    >> Martin
    >>
    >
    >
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