From koffice Sat Jun 15 05:36:20 2002 From: Richard Bos Date: Sat, 15 Jun 2002 05:36:20 +0000 To: koffice Subject: Re: creating koffice2ps/pdf type program X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=koffice&m=102412621904796 Hi Vedran, look for dcop (kdcop). It should be the start for your command line koff= ice=20 -> pdf filter. Search the koffice archives at http://lists.kde.org. ---------- Doorgestuurd bericht ---------- Subject: Re: Automation of Koffice Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2001 12:48:32 +0200 From: David Faure To: koffice@mail.kde.org On Lundi 17 Septembre 2001 02:51, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote: > Hello guys! > > I'm new here. > > Is there a way somehow to automate some tasks I do e.g. in KWord like > I could do it in any office suite with embedded macrolanguage? E.g. > can I use Python or so? Yes, using the DCOP interfaces. Check "kdcop" (from kdebase) to see part of what is available through DCO= P. Since there are python bindings for DCOP, you can use python. Check out http://www.xs4all.nl/~bsarempt/python/tutorial.html (found this link on http://developer.kde.org/documentation/tutorials/index.html) and, I just added to developer.kde.org the automation paper by Olaf Zanger, it shoul= d shortly appear as http://developer.kde.org/documentation/tutorials/automation/index.html -- David FAURE, david@mandrakesoft.com, faure@kde.org http://perso.mandrakesoft.com/~david/ , http://www.konqueror.org/ KDE, Making The Future of Computing Available Today Op zaterdag 15 juni 2002 01:28, schreef Vedran Rodic: > Is it possible to develop a command line program that will convert a > koffice document to postscript or pdf? Using KOffice API of course :) > Program should be able to work without a DISPLAY. > > I'm mainly interested in converting kword documents to such formats > non-interactively (inserting database data in kword xml, and serving > the generated pdfs on the net), but kervel at #koffice suggested that > it should be possible to make a generic koffice2pdf type app. > > What documentation (or header/source files) should I look at? > > Thanks, > Vedran Rodic --=20 Richard Bos Without a home the journey is endless ____________________________________ koffice mailing list koffice@mail.kde.org To unsubscribe please visit: http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/koffice