[Officeshots] interoperability testing

[Jos van den Oever]

On 03/07/2013 06:10 PM, Milos Sramek wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I've not written to this list for some time...
>
> Perhaps there is a chance in Bratislava to set up a Windows machine with
> running MSO 2007/10/13 for our testing purposes. If you find that
> interesting, I  can ask Microsoft representatives here in Bratislava, if
> they would be willing to donate the necessary licenses.
>
> Regarding the officeshots API: would it be possible to use it also to do
> other types of conversions, not only odf->odf->pdf? Currently, within a
> larger project, I work on a user study, which would enable for
> quantitative  evaluation of a "level of interoperability" between office
> applications on the basis of various document standards. The study is
> based on automated conversion of documents (similar to the officeshots
> framework, only running locally). Conversion by AOO, LO an Google Docs
> is already implemented this way (not a big deal, GD using their API). I
> would, however like to convert the documents also by MSO. I hope that
> using the officeshots API and the above mentioned machine it would be
> possible.

I am certainly very interested in seeing my documents rendered by MSO 
alongside LibreOffice and OpenOffice. If officeshots would offer that, 
it would be very useful.

Cheers,
Jos