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AROfficeTransforms
Category: Miscellaneous, Services
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Current release: AROfficeTransforms 0.9.2
Released Dec 5, 2007 — tested with Plone 3.0, Plone 2.5
Transforms for MS Excel, MS Word, MS Powerpoint, PDF, OpenOffice 1 documents, OpenDocuments to XHTML, MS Word to text and ZIP to Text.
Experimental releases
Upcoming and alpha/beta/candidate releases
- Alpha releases should only be used for testing and development.
- Beta releases and Release Candidates are normally released for production testing, but should not be used on mission-critical sites.
- Always install on a separate test server first, and make sure you have proper backups before installing.
Release roadmap for AROfficeTransforms…
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Code repositoryWhat is AROfficeTransforms
AROfficeTransforms adds new transforms capabilities to your Plone PortalTransform.
Features
AROfficeTransforms adds conversion to html for MS Office, OpenOffice.org (v1 and v2), OpenDocument, PDF files.
What are the benefits of AROfficeTransforms compared to other solutions ?
AROfficeTransforms doesn't rely on OpenOffice.org for its transformations. It uses external transforms that do the job.
It is therefore much more simple to install, especially on GNU/Linux systems. It should also works on Posix platforms (Mac, BSD...).
Please contact us for MS Windows port.
AROfficeTransforms uses xsl transformations for xml based formats.
AROfficeTransforms adds its transforms to PortalTransforms and make them available for any component of Plone that needs transform capabilities.
AROfficeTransforms is fully tested and includes 31 unit tests. It is dedicated to be included in PortalTransforms.
Combined to ARFilePreview, AROfficeTransforms provide out-of-the-box full text indexation and preview for all office documents.
AROfficeTransforms combines with ARFilePreview
AROfficeTransforms adds new transforms to portal_transforms. That means that these transforms (basically office docs to html) are now available for Plone components that rely on portal_transforms. For example the old ATDocument used to rely on portal_transforms in order to convert PDF to html when a pdf was loaded into a Document.
This availability doesn't mean that contents that actually don't transform content to html will do it. That's the reason of the creation of ARFilePreview.
ARFilePreview extends the File content type : it adds the preview of the file contained in order to display it the way user want. ARFilePreview basically make that when a File is loaded, it looks in portal_transforms in order to see if this file can be converted to html. If it's possible, it will invoke the portal_transform and will retrieve and index the result. The transformation is done only once.
The user can decide wether it wants to display both file and preview, only the link to download file or only the preview as if it was a Document.
You can read the ARFilePreview product page for more informations.
Mac users and people that have problems installing ARFilePreview may take a look at this thread.
Credits
AROfficeTransforms is developped by atReal.
