RE: Web Application - Word Conversion

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On Mon, 1 May 2006, Dean Ernst wrote:

> Date: Mon, 1 May 2006 08:11:40 +1000
> From: Dean Ernst <dean@coolmedia.com.au>
> To: 'Alan Horkan' <horkana@maths.tcd.ie>
> Subject: RE: Web Application - Word Conversion
>
> Hi Alan,
>
> Thanks for your help.
>
> Much appreciated.
>
> >I'd suggest integrating abiword as part of the backend to a Content
> Management System (CMS) such as Plone and avoid the web work as much
> possible but that is up to whoever decides to implement this.
>
> The word conversion function will be part of a bigger project, so I don't
> need the whole web project ie a CMS, just the word to XML/XHTML portion.

Since you even had to ask about uploading it seemed like it would be best
if you avoid reinventing the wheel instead of using a prebuilt solution
for this part of your problem.

> Does the abiword commandline ability scale well? I mean if I have a web
> application that has thousands of users the could potentially be uploading
> and converting word documents, is abiword ok with this?

see the command line options, there is a server option which allows you to
keep abiword open instead of opening a seperate copy for each conversion
and I would expect it scales quite efficiently but you will have to test
it and see if matches your opinion of efficient.

Sincerely

Alan Horkan
http://advogato.org/person/AlanHorkan/
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Received on Mon May 1 00:22:28 2006