[Server-devel] EduBlog: Looking for comments/bugs

[Tomeu Vizoso]

Hi,

not sure to understand why you need to convert Write entries to html,
but abiword has good formatting capabilities and is run in headless
servers routinely.

The abiword people is a friendly bunch and can give you a hand with this.

Good luck,

Tomeu

On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 2:20 PM, Greg Smith <gregsmitholpc at gmail.com> wrote:
> FYI all - I'm moving this back on the server list. I bcc'd all the
> original thread people. I will try to keep all EduBlog design on the
> list now unless it involves passwords.
>
> Hi Tarun,
>
> Interesting challenge, thanks for the background. I thought we would use
> the journal to move things from Write to EduBlog (aka Browse). Is that
> completely nailed and working with the new tweaked write version?
>
> If so, we don't need to solve this copy and paste via clipboard problem
> you note below. I want to start Alpha ASAP and Beta on August 1. Let me
> know if this is a blocker.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Greg S
>
> Tarun Pondicherry wrote:
>> Hi Greg
>>> Not sure what is needed in Write upload... can you describe?
>> The issue is that the only format that contains the images that the
>> libabiword version on 656 can export to is the AbiWord format (mime:
>> application/x-abiword).  I'm trying hard to find a PHP library to
>> convert this to html, but have not been successful.  Write is supposed
>> to be able to export to xhtml, and rtf, but neither actually work.
>> Similar issue with libabiword, which should support xhtml, rtf and odt,
>> but none seem to work as far as I can tell.  Thus, we need to parse the
>> abiword file on the server.  The option I am thinking of now as a
>> temporary fix is to load the latest libabiword on the server and get it
>> to convert the files since coding the abw-->xhtml conversion in PHP is
>> highly non trivial.  Copy and paste is linked to this issue.  libabiword
>> doesn't put the data on the clipboard in the correct format.
>>
>> I guess a good question is when is the exact deadline for starting the
>> beta test?  If we need to be done by August 1st, then I will try hard to
>> atleast support basic formatting and images in some way (may be a bit
>> sloppy) and clean it up later.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Tarun
>>
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