[Officeshots] interoperability testing

[robert_weir at us.ibm.com]

officeshots-bounces at nlnet.nl wrote on 03/07/2013 04:50:46 PM:

> From: Michiel Leenaars <michiel.ml at nlnet.nl>
> To: Officeshots support and development <officeshots at nlnet.nl>, 
> Date: 03/07/2013 04:51 PM
> Subject: Re: [Officeshots] interoperability testing
> Sent by: officeshots-bounces at nlnet.nl
> 
> Hi Milos,
> 
> > 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.
> 
> I have some licences for testing machines for MSO 2007 for you. John 
> Haug or Jim Thatcher might be able to provide copies for c2010 and 2013 
> - as he and Doug have done in prior instances - I will send their 
> contact details to you off list.
> 
> There is no reason other document conversions shouldn't work with minor 
> modifications, I think we designed it generically. Of course there are 
> no validators for the binary formats for instance, but it would be 
> useful without already as Jos remarked.
> 

Actually, have you seen this:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/office/gg649868%28v=office.14%29.aspx

This was beta with Office 2010.  I don't know if Microsoft took this 
further, but it could be useful for testing binary format documents.

-Rob


> OfficeConvert is able to already handle all conversions that MS Office
> performs, and the Officeshots python factory is trivial to change. I 
> think the biggest part is for someone to go through the Officeshots 
> server code, and dig into the definition of file types. And of course we 

> need to fit it into the UI.
> 
> Anyone on this list fluent enough in PHP to go there?
> 
> Best,
> Michiel
> 
> > 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.
> 
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