RE: Web application-AbiWord based

Thank You Martin,

Q1: Then, isn't that easier to use a library (e.g. libabiword or libwv) to convert doc files instead of running AbiWord? is that possible, how?

Q2: I want to know which functions are available in the libabiword, especially those that can be used to convert doc files; could You please mention those or tell me how to know them??  (I have searched in internet but did not found anything about functions in this library)

Best regards,

Oussama

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> Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2011 17:02:14 +1000
> Subject: Re: Web application-AbiWord based
> From: msevior@gmail.com
> To: ou_cha@hotmail.com
> CC: abiword-dev@abisource.com
>
>
> Dear Oussama,
>
> It is possible but tedious if you don't already have all the libraries
> needed on the server. You would have to load all these yourself into
> some local directory and set up environment variables so that they are
> found.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Martin
>
> On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 5:44 AM, Oussama Chammam <ou_cha@hotmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Thank You Martin for the answer
> >
> > I do already know about
> > the existence of that command line plugin, but the question is if it is possible to just
> > copy an "AbiWord installation folder" to the server through FTP
> > and run AbiWord from it (using PHP or
> > Python)??
> >
> > regards, Oussama
> >
> > ----------------------------------------
> >> Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2011 23:20:40 +1000
> >> Subject: Re: Web application-AbiWord based
> >> From: msevior@gmail.com
> >> To: ou_cha@hotmail.com
> >> CC: abiword-dev@abisource.com
> >>
> >>
> >> Dear Oussama,
> >>
> >> Thank you for your interest in AbiWord. AbiWord can indeed be used in
> >> a headless webserver, althugh you do need the gtk libraries to be
> >> installed on the system
> >>
> >> To see an example of a very powerful abiword-driven website see:
> >>
> >> http://abicollab.net
> >>
> >> We use the command line plugin to create a long-lived server.
> >>
> >> See:
> >>
> >> http://www.abisource.com/wiki/AbiCommand
> >>
> >> For various emaples with code.
> >>
> >> Good luck!
> >>
> >> Martin
> >>
> >>
> >> On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 6:47 PM, Oussama Chammam <ou_cha@hotmail.com> wrote:
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > Hi AbiWord community!
> >> > Thank you for that awesome program!
> >> >
> >> > What I want to do:
> >> > ===========
> >> > Develop a simple web document converter (from doc to html) that works on a shared host.
> >> >
> >> > Different ways to implement it:
> >> > =================
> >> > 1) use a ctypes in Python to use a shared library like libabiword or libwv
> >> > (can I have a local copy of them so they do not need to be installed in
> >> > shared host server?)
> >> > 2) upload a standalone copy of AbiWord/wvWare using php_exec() or a
> >> > similar Python/Perl command (is that possible? none-linux standard
> >> > libraries has to be integrated into AbiWord at compile time... is that
> >> > true?)
> >> > 3) call AbiWord/wvWare using php_exec() or a similar Python/Perl command (is not applicable in a shared host: they won't install the software on the server, some hosts do also prevent using php_exec())
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > I would prefer to use the first option, but I'm not sure if libabiword contains any none-GTK functions. I'm not either sure what functions both libabiword and libwv do provide (I did not find any documentation about it)
> >> >
> >> > Please give me tips how to start and which functions are usable. Also let me know if there is a better way to do it.
> >> >
> >> > PS. I saw that many people wants this functionality on their shared hosts; and if I success in doing it I will make it available for all them!
> >> >
> >> > Thank you in advance
> >> > Oussama C.
> >> >
> >
                                               
Received on Wed Jul 27 23:10:10 2011