ConvertOffice

This is a fork of the original https://github.com/amardaxini/convert_office with slight modifications to allow it to be used as a gem using Bundler.

Two additional configuration keys have also been added, with the default values:

:asynchronous=>true # whether to run the java command asynchronously or not :verbose=>false # whether to print out some additional runtime information (useful for tracking down problems)

Note that this has only been tested on Rails 2.3.14 with Bundler included - although its expected to work on Rails 3, some additional work is required to automatically include the convert_office rake task with Railsties

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It is a ruby Wrapper of [jodconverter][1] Which is used to convert office format to another office format/html [1]: http://www.artofsolving.com/opensource/jodconverter.

Install

Add to your Gemfile:

gem 'convert_office', :git=>'git@github.com:stuzart/convert_office.git'

Requirements

JDK 1.5.x or 1.6.x

OpenOffice 2,3 or greater

Start Office with headless mode.

soffice -headless -accept="socket,host=127.0.0.1,port=8100;urp;" -nofirststartwizard Configuration -------------

These are the default settings which can be overwritten in your enviroment configuration file. ConvertOffice::ConvertOfficeConfig.options = { :java_bin => "java", # java binary :nailgun =>false, # for nailgun support :soffice_port=>8100, # Open office port no :asynchronous=>true, # wait for the java system command to finish or not :verbose=>false # display some additional runtime information } Example

If destination file is known.destination file consist valid file format

ConvertOffice::ConvertOfficeFormat.new.convert(src_file,dest_file)

If format is known then

ConvertOffice::ConvertOfficeFormat.new.convert(src_file,"",format)

Valid Format

To see valid format for conversion.

ConvertOffice::ConvertOfficeFormat.display_valid_format(input file name/format optional field)

Advance Configuraion

To speed up conversion process using nailgun server,do following steps

./script/plugin install git://github.com/amardaxini/nailgun.git

Start nailgun server.Before starting nailgun server make sure that your classpath environment variable set and point to jre/lib

rake nailgun script/nailgun start

you have to overwrite Configuration make nailgun option to true Now after making nailgun option true run

rake convert_office script/convet_office_nailgun

Copyright (c) 2010 [amardaxini][1], released under the MIT license [1]: http://railstech.com