[mew-int 2517] Re: Open Document visualisation in Mew

[maxigas]

hi!

i am happy you are doing this.

you must note that unoconv uses OpenOffice in the background, through
it's UNO bindings. i don't know what are these, but it can be easier
to use the UNO bindings directly than building installing Debian
because of this.. 

here's the quote from the unoconv man page:

DESCRIPTION
       unoconv is a command line utility that can convert any file
       format that OpenOffice can
       import, to any file format that OpenOffice is capable of
       exporting.

       unoconv uses the OpenOffice’s UNO bindings for non-interactive
       conversion of documents
       and therefor needs an OpenOffice instance to communicate
       with. Therefore if it cannot
       find one, it will start its own instance for temporary
       usage. If desired, one can start a
       “listener” instance to use for subsequent connections or even
       for remote connections.


From: Kazu Yamamoto (山本和彦) <kazu at example.com>
Subject: Re: [mew-int 2515] Open Document visualisation in Mew
Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2008 17:29:04 +0900 (JST)

> Hello,
> 
> > if now, then with the excellect unoconv package similar functionality
> > is available, converting to text any OD file, so i guess it would not
> > be too difficult to make.
> 
> Thank you for the idea and good information.
> 
> I tried to find unoconv on Mac with the macports package system but
> unfortunately I could not found it.
> 
> I will try to build the Debian environment but it would take a time.
> Please wait.
> 
> --Kazu