From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tassilo Horn Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: DocView now supports OpenDocument & MS Office formats Date: Wed, 05 Jan 2011 08:40:48 +0100 Message-ID: <874o9n3iin.fsf@member.fsf.org> References: <87hbduhno4.fsf@gnu.org> <87sjxa2xao.fsf@member.fsf.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1294213274 3162 80.91.229.12 (5 Jan 2011 07:41:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2011 07:41:14 +0000 (UTC) Cc: monkey@sandpframing.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org, rms@gnu.org, jasonr@gnu.org To: Miles Bader Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jan 05 08:41:07 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PaNzU-0005gn-Fh for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 05 Jan 2011 08:41:04 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:51278 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PaNzT-0005q4-Qo for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 05 Jan 2011 02:41:03 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=56685 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PaNzH-0005p8-Sb for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Jan 2011 02:40:52 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PaNzF-0001FU-VO for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Jan 2011 02:40:51 -0500 Original-Received: from deliver.uni-koblenz.de ([141.26.64.15]:7928) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PaNzF-0001FI-QU; Wed, 05 Jan 2011 02:40:49 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by deliver.uni-koblenz.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 38CAE78016D2; Wed, 5 Jan 2011 08:40:49 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from deliver.uni-koblenz.de ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (deliver.uni-koblenz.de [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 27448-10; Wed, 5 Jan 2011 08:40:48 +0100 (CET) X-CHKRCPT: Envelopesender noch tassilo@member.fsf.org Original-Received: from thinkpad (tsdh.uni-koblenz.de [141.26.67.142]) by deliver.uni-koblenz.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 57A1D78016B5; Wed, 5 Jan 2011 08:40:48 +0100 (CET) In-Reply-To: (Miles Bader's message of "Wed, 05 Jan 2011 14:23:36 +0900") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at uni-koblenz.de X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:134279 Archived-At: Miles Bader writes: > Richard Stallman writes: >> The reason I chose unoconv/OO.org is that it required only a few lines >> of elisp to allow for viewing anything OO.org can read inside emacs. >> >> It seems reasonable to me. In principle, writing ODF support in Emacs >> Lisp would be preferable, but that's a gigantic job and it might run >> too slowly. > > Note that unoconv itself is almost trivial. It relies on what seems > to be a serialization library (a variant of CORBA?) for speaking to > OO/libreoffice; that may be more complicated, but it's not clear how > much is required to do the tasks docview wants to do. If only a very > small subset is used, it might even be possible to simply hardwire > those bits needed. Yes, that might be possible. doc-view.el only uses the PDF export, because that has a very good quality. From that point on, the usual doc-view PDF->PNG (and PDF->TXT for the search in documents) is applied. Bye, Tassilo