[Officeshots] interoperability testing

[Milos Sramek]

Dňa 07.03.2013 22:50, Michiel Leenaars wrote / napísal(a):
> Hi Milos,
Hi Michiel,

thanks for your response.
>
>> 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.
I would like to do everything legally clean. So, if this would be OK 
from the point of view of licenses, then I would prefer to use these. 
However, we would need also a license for Windows - maybe three, I do no 
know if 2007, 2010 and 2013 can run on one system simultaneously. 
Otherwise, I will try to talk to Microsoft Slovakia and ask them to 
donate the licenses. The project I mentioned is run by an advisory body 
of Slovak government, where also Microsoft (indirectly, through a 
non-for-profit organization) is involved. But I would prefer to not to 
ask MS for the licenses, if another option exists :).
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
Regarding my tool, I would prefer to access a "conversion service" from 
a script (currently I run LO and AOO directly on the same machine and 
access Google docs through their API). If that is possible also for MSO, 
rendering of documents for testing would be simple: One only needs to 
create a 'master document' in a certain version of application in its 
default format (e.g, ODT in AOO/LO od DOCX im MSO). All the necessary 
conversions and renderings can then be generated automatically, followed 
by preparation of "views" for evaluation. Everything is written in bash, 
so I need to run it on Linux. If no access to MSO over a script is 
possible, manual conversion and copying would be required.

Is there a possibility to access a factory directly, avoiding the 
Officeshots API? Does such script exist? This would simplify things on 
my side. In any case, our MSO factory would immediately enable ODT 
conversions through the officesots web. And, if somebody updates the web 
UI, all conversions will be accessible there.

Of course, the code will be available to all.


>
> Anyone on this list fluent enough in PHP to go there?
I unfortunately am not:(

best regards
Milos
>
> 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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