Re^2: Opening word file in open office

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Re^3: Opening word file in open office by Corion (Patriarch) on Jun 27, 2009 at 14:22 UTC
See OpenOffice::UNO on how to automate OpenOffice, to read MS Word files.	[reply]
Re^3: Opening word file in open office by marto (Cardinal) on Jun 27, 2009 at 14:38 UTC
Did you post a similar question on the OpenOffice.org Forum? If so there are examples of automating Open Office using both Win32::OLE and OpenOffice::UNO (which Corion told you about in Doc to Pdf conversion), super search on this topic for similar questions and replies, such as About open office. Martin	[reply]
Re^4: Opening word file in open office by soubalaji (Sexton) on Jun 28, 2009 at 10:40 UTC
Yes martin i posted the question but no reply.	[reply]
Re^4: Opening word file in open office by Anonymous Monk on Jul 04, 2009 at 00:21 UTC
Hi The example at OpenOffice::UNO which u mentioned is compleatly useless. I understood nothing. What I would need is a real example which uses OpenOffice::UNO to open a Word-document and saves it as odt-document. If anyone could post such code this would be really cool!! Alex	[reply]
Re^5: Opening word file in open office by Anonymous Monk on Jul 04, 2009 at 08:07 UTC
Alex, OpenOffice::UNO is a straight bridge to the OpenOffice.org API, so the definitve reference is in the OpenOffice.org SDK. You have to read http://api.openoffice.org/ http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Uno http://codesnippets.services.openoffice.org/Writer/Writer.StoreWriterAsPDF.snip `sUrl="file:///myhome/documents/source.sxw" oDocument=oDesktop.loadComponentFromURL(sUrl,"_blank",0,DimArray()) Dim args(0) as new com.sun.star.beans.PropertyValue args(0).Name = "FilterName" args(0).Value = "writer_pdf_Export" destination = "file:///myhome/documents/test.pdf" odocument.storeToURL(destination,args()) oDocument.close(true)` [download] grep writer_pdf_Export -r OpenOffice-UNO-0.06 http://cpansearch.perl.org/src/MBARBON/OpenOffice-UNO-0.06/t/14.t http://perluno.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/perluno/perluno/examples/DocumentSaver/ http://perluno.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/perluno/perluno/examples/DocumentConverter/	[reply] [d/l]
Re^3: Opening word file in open office by afoken (Chancellor) on Jun 27, 2009 at 20:46 UTC
There still is no Perl module written to read the various MS Word formats on CPAN, but OLE::Storage has an example script that extracts text from MS Word 6/7/8 files, so OLE::Storage should be able to read MS Word files, but maybe not on that high level that OpenOffice::OODoc offers. The newer OLE::Storage_Lite should also be able to read MS Word files. There is also a module that can WRITE MS Word files (Win32::Word::Writer), but it depends on OLE and an installed MS Word. Newer MS Office versions (starting at Office 2003) write ZIP-compressed XML files for at least Word, Excel, and Powerpoint. You just have to unzip the *.docx file and parse the XML file it contains, very similar to what OpenOffice::OODoc does. See also Re: Excel 2007 Support. Alexander -- Today I will gladly share my knowledge and experience, for there are no sweeter words than "I told you so". ;-)	[reply]