[Typo3-dev] WORD>SXW>General Office displayer conversion serverside (Robert please look)

[Robert Fink]

Hi!

> Have been looking up and down the internet for this one. - it should be 
> possible, I just can´t find a script that does this - and yes I HAVE looked 
> in all four corners of the internet ;o)
> 
> I need a php script that interacts with a local install (serverside) of 
> openoffice in order to convert MS word files to open office sxw files.
> 
> I imagine it would be something like calling open office in some sort of 
> hidden mode and parsing a macro + a sourcefile.doc and targetfile.sxw.
> 
> Anyone know of a way to do this or maybe even able to point me to some 
> example script. It would open all new possibilities with the existing 
> General office displayer and with roberts upcoming Documents suite.

I already implemented a solution for converting SXW<->TIFF<->PDF<->DOC using 
PHP and Python. As soon as i will find time for it (hopefully during Jan 
2005), i will create a TYPO3-service for this purpose.

  Robert