RE: [Phpwiki-talk] feature request...

[John C. <joh...@ua...>]

Alec,
  catdoc looks nice as does word2x, however most of the open source doc
converters look pretty long in the tooth ;-)  It seems that the comercial
converters are a lot better than the oss versions.

  The primary advantage of dealing with word documents is that you could
automatically save the images out to a place accessable to the webserver
(perhaps even give them a interwiki link ;-)

  I'm not sure how well these converters work with that, so it may be easier
to get a html2wiki converter like office2wiki working.  That also has the
advantage of being entirely in php.

  I've also found some php code that uses com to have word save as html,
which could then be fed to a html2wiki script, but that would only work on
windows systems :-)

John Cole

-----Original Message-----
From: Alec Thomas [mailto:li...@sw...]
Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 2004 10:21 AM
To: John Cole
Cc: php...@li...
Subject: Re: [Phpwiki-talk] feature request...


On Tue, Jun 01, 2004 at 10:01:12AM -0500, John Cole wrote:
> Second, I have noticed a lot of word documents being shared on our
> wiki.  I feel that this somehow defeats the wikiness of our wiki ;-)
> I'd like to have them convert the documents to wiki, but that is quite
> an undertaking.  I found a html2wiki php script at
> http://www.cvsnt.org/striphtml.php that Tony Hoyle (of CVSNT fame)
> modified.  This would be a nice plugin to have, as I could then tell
> people to convert their docs to html and use that plugin to convert
> the html to wiki.

Another alternative might be catdoc, along with some magic Wikification.

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