zdravko.balorda at siix
May 13, 2011, 4:46 AM
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Sounds awesome! Congratulations. Hopefully one can remove font
colors, sizes, ... and things.
I couldn't even imagine one would pay so much effort into this.
I'd be happy with importing "tidied" Word html file instead of
the very .doc itself.
Regards, Zdravko
Alex Krohn wrote:
> Hi,
>
>> I found this relevant thread on the mailing list:
>> http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/bricolage/devel/38840#38840
>>
>> However, these two branches are now 404ing:
>> https://github.com/brewt/bricolage/commits/dev_who_word_import
>> https://github.com/brewt/bricolage/tree/dev_inline_edit
>>
>> Does anyone have a copy of these branches?
>
> Attached is a patch of the changes against Bricolage 2.0.1.
>
> Please note, this is beta and only lightly tested and still needs a fair
> bit of polish before considering merging into Bricolage.
>
> If anyone wants to take it up and finds it useful, happy to help see how
> we could merge it in.
>
> If you are interested in trying this out and see if it something
> suitable for your organization, the basic install steps are:
>
> 1. Install the prerequisites:
>
> - abiword http://www.abisource.com/
> - wvsummary http://wvware.sourceforge.net/
>
> which handle the meta info extraction and text/style extraction.
>
> 2. Apply the patch. It's built against 2.0.1, and will alter the
> following core Bricolage files:
>
> comp/widgets/story_prof/edit_new.html
> comp/workflow/profile/story/new/dhandler
> lib/Bric/App/Callback/Profile/Story.pm
>
> It will install the custom code in lib/BricX (for lack of a more
> suitable place). The configuration file that handles mapping of word
> styles to bricolage elements is in:
>
> conf/word_import.conf
>
> 3. Edit lib/BricX/Converter.pm and set the path to abiword/wvsummary
> (currently hard coded).
>
> 4. Look at conf/word_import.conf and see mapping of styleesheet to
> element types. I'd just stick with this for now, but should give you a
> guideline for how to adjust to fit your needs.
>
> 5. Go to create new story, and you should see a upload file field.
> Upload a word file, and you should see the new story pre-populated from
> the word file. You can go to:
>
> http://gt.net/products/source/bric-word-convert.zip
>
> to get a sample .dot and .doc file that is setup for the included conf
> file which will hopefully get you started.
>
> Hope someone finds it helpful and if anyone runs with this, let me know.
>
> Our thanks go out to the people at WHO for sponsoring this, and just as
> important, allowing it to go back to the community. =)
>
> Cheers,
>
> Alex
>
> --
> Alex Krohn <alex [at] gt>
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