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

[Pasqual Milvaques]

my idea was using office convert to transform all the office documents in a
directory tree to their odf equivalents. I pass you the script I have
designed for doing it (I have done a bit of testing to it so it must work).
the script moves the original files to backup directories but makes them
hidden and read only.
My idea was to put this running as a windows task in a machine in my
organization pointing to a shared directory, anybody who wants to transform
their documents puts his directory of files in the shared directory, waits
for the transformation finishing and takes back his directory.
well, that was the idea, but at the end you never know if any of your 1000
documents could be translated better by libreoffice than by office. my
testing shows that normally microsoft office does better translations for
'doc, docx -> odt', it's for that that I looked for a thing like office
convert.

In any way something like an acid test (as for the html standard) should be
build for odf because in this moment the rendering of a lot of documents
differs significantly between libreoffice and microsoft office. sometimes
the transformed documents don't open with the other suite. you can try with
this as an example if you want (transform it in office and open in
libreoffice):
http://www.microsoft.com/es-es/download/confirmation.aspx?id=3497

there should be some compatibility test to pass so a suite could say that
is odf compatible. the java tck is an example of this

I can give you a hand with documenting the tool as you asked although I
don't know how much time I could dedicate to this and the volume of the
work. detail me it a bit and I will do the best I can. If you want to
publish the bat file I send to you it's ok

thanks

2012/12/8 Michiel Leenaars <michiel.ml at nlnet.nl>

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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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