From: Dom Lachowicz (domlachowicz_at_yahoo.com)
Date: Mon Dec 15 2003 - 09:37:46 EST
While this is really cool and all, wouldn't it be
easier and smarter to just "print" to the ps/pdf
thumbnailer?
AbiWord --print='|ps2thumb --args' file.abw
Dom
--- msevior_at_physics.unimelb.edu.au wrote:
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> Simple C interface to remotely executing AbiWord-2.2
> process.
>
> This is committed inside the AbiCommand plugin
> directory. It's a simple
> interface to setup AbiWord as a remote document
> server. In uses the
> AbiCommand command line interface to control a
> remotely running AbiWord
> process. It is fault tolerant. If AbiWord crashes it
> will restart a
> process. The C-interface is extremely simple.
>
> /*
> * The function is fault tolerant and will report if
> a requested
> * file is not capable of being converted.
> *
> * It will also restart AbiWord if it does crash on
> the next invocation
> * of convertFileToText.
> *
> * Inputs: inFile - The path to the word processor
> file to be converted.
> * outFile - The path to the file containing
> the plain text of the
> * word processor file.
> * The function blocks until the conversion is
> complete or until
> * the conversion fails.
> *
> * It returns 0 upon a successful conversion
> * and -1 if the conversion fails.
> */
> int convertFileToText(const char * inFile, const
> char * outFile)
>
> /*
> * Call this method after all conversions have
> completed. Otherwise you'll
> * have a runaway AbiWord-2.2 process.
> */
> int finalizeConversions(void)
>
> This can be used to scan all the WP documents on a
> hard disk and index
> them for content.
>
> It was constructed for the dashboard project but
> other groups might be
> interested too.
>
> I personally want to set up a thumb name server for
> nautilus so all your
> WP docs have a nice thumb-nail in the nautilus file
> browser.
>
> Enjoy!
>
> Martin
>
>
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