Re: commit: Document server code for AbiCommand.

From: msevior_at_physics.unimelb.edu.au
Date: Mon Dec 15 2003 - 10:08:05 EST

  • Next message: Dom Lachowicz: "Re: commit: Document server code for AbiCommand."

    > 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
    >

    Oh cool! I didn't know about that. It will certainly get dobey off my back.
    This is just what he wanted.

    Martin

    > Dom
    >
    > --- msevior_at_physics.unimelb.edu.au wrote:
    >>
    >> CVS:
    >>
    > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
    >> CVS: Enter Log. Lines beginning with `CVS:' are
    >> removed automatically
    >> CVS:
    >> CVS: Committing in .
    >> CVS:
    >> CVS: Added Files:
    >> CVS: ConvertToText.c ConvertToText.h
    >> CVS:
    >>
    > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
    >> 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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