[Officeshots] Fwd: Office Convert is compatible with office 2013?

[Michiel Leenaars]

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Hi Pasqual,

> I'm testing office convert with office 2013 and the binary for the 
> 2010 version seems to work. I have taken a look to the odt
> generated files and in the meta.xml there is indication that the
> odf files are of the 1.2 which is one of the improvements that had
> office 2013 for me, for anterior office versions the odf version
> was 1.1. odf 1.2 has some improvements, specially for the
> spreadsheet area, which could be important in some contexts

basically Officeconvert is an elaborate, gui-less wrapper around the
underlying MS Office libraries. In other words: it does nothing itself
conversion-wise. On the machine we use it on for Officeshots, we run
multiple copies of Office - 2007 SP2 and 2010 next to each other (and
we can with parameters provide in/output with both the native export
and the open source add-in). For that to work on the same machine we
had to recompile to different hard coded versions of the library.

I'm not sure if .net handles libraries gracefully, but if you have
only MS Office 2013 on it and OfficeConvert works - I'd assume that it
does. It is easy to check, though - use it, and compare the result to
an output document you create by importing the same document and then
save it through MS Office 2013.

> Can you confirm me that office convert for 2010 is compatible with
office
> 2013? If you are planning to do a new release or have notice of
> some problems in this matter please let me know

If it works for you as is, that is great. If not, the update last time
was done by Dirk Vollmar from the German company Dialogika. Basically
there are links to explicit versions of the old libraries that need to
be updated to the new versions of the libraries - and then it needs to
be compiled with MS Visual Studio. If you compare the two versions we
have in subversion, that should be easy to do. Please let us know.

We should provide some better documentation on it as well, as it is a
very useful tool. For instance on OpenDocumentFormat.org. If there are
volunteers to help out, let me know.

Best,
Michiel
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