Re: [odfdom-dev] Status of the Simple Java API for ODF and ODFDOM - 08/10/2011

Angelo zerr <angelo.zerr@gmail.com> wrote on 2011-08-11 21:22:08:

> From: Angelo zerr <angelo.zerr@gmail.com>
> To: dev@odfdom.odftoolkit.org
> Cc: dev@simple.odftoolkit.org, dev@odftoolkit.odftoolkit.org,
> general@incubator.apache.org
> Date: 2011-08-11 21:22
> Subject: Re: [odfdom-dev] Status of the Simple Java API for ODF and
> ODFDOM - 08/10/2011
>
> Hi Biao,
>
> Thank a lot to mention XDocReport in your mail. I would like give
> some information about it. You can find XDocReport at http://
> code.google.com/p/xdocreport/. By default XDocReport generate report
> source 2 source (odt 2 odt, docx 2 docx...). At this step ODFDOM IS
> NOT Used. ODFDOM is used for convert ODT 2 XHTM or PDF that we have
called
> ODFDOMConverter
>
> THe ODFDOMConverter is Java implementation to convert ODT 2 PDF
> (with itext) and XHTML. This project is used by XDocReport (if you
> wish convert your generated report 2 XHTML, PDF) BUT you can use
> ODFDOMConverter without XDocReport (package is
org.odftoolkit.odfdom.converter
> )
>
> My idea was to give to ODFDOM Team the sources of the
> ODFDOMConverter project. But since you wish gives the project 2
> Apache, I'm not sure that ODFDOM Converter will interest Apacahe.
> Why? Because we are using iText for PDF and not FOP. I believe that
> Apache Fondation don't want use iText.
>
> We have the same proble with our DOCX converter http://
> code.google.com/p/xdocreport/wiki/XWPFConverter
>
> If you think iText is not a problem for Apache Fondation, we will
> happy to give your the ODFDOMConverter project.

Thanks for your contribution intention. But we found iText uses the AGPL
license: http://itextpdf.com/terms-of-use/index.php
So it would be difficult to use that in an Apache 2.0 licensed project.

Do you have plan to supply a version using PDFBox pr FOP? Both of them will
be OK for Apache 2.0 license.
And as far as I know, PDFBox may be easier. Its API is similar with iText.

Whatever, thank you for your eager contribution intention!

>
> Regards Angelo
>

> 2011/8/10 Biao Han <hanbiao@cn.ibm.com>
> (We should send this to project mailing list, but we don't have one
> yet. so sorry for interrupt those guys in incubator general mailing list)
>
> ODF Toolkit move to Apache
> 1. SVN account has been created and is now available for use. We
> will discuss and start the code move after mail lists are ready;
> 2. The first board meeting is scheduled for Wed, 17 August 2011, 10
> am Pacific. We have submitted a quarterly board report to here.
> 3. As we have been an Apache incubator project, so we will discuss
> and release ODF Toolkit in the new community. The original release
> plan have to be cancelled.
>
> Simple ODF
> 1. Reviewed and pushed a bug about TextProperties (#bug 357).
> 2. Reviewed and pushed three unit test coverage enhancement patches
> (#bug 241) .
> 3. The downloads of Simple ODF 0.6.5 has been to 204. This number
> equals with Simple ODF 0.4. But version 0.4 uses more 6 months get
> it, while version 0.6.5 uses only 40 days.
>
> ODFDOM
> 1. Working on data signature. There are two issues caused by
> OpenOffice block the process.
> (1) OpenOffice.org generate a Namespace unaware signature document.
> ODFDOM loads it fails.
> (2) OpenOffice.org creates multiple X509Certificates instead of the
> correct certification chain under ds:KeyInfo.
> see also:
> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=39657 (ds namespace in
> LibreOffice)
> http://openoffice.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=107864 (ds namespace in
OOo)
> http://openoffice.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=66276 (multiple
> X509Certificate in OOo)
> http://openoffice.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=108286
> We have to supply two modes to fix it. One follows ODF
> specification, the other follows Open Office. The question is which
> is the default?
> 2. A new user: XDocReport uses ODFDOM to load and manipulate ODF
> document. It's Java API to merge XML document created with MS Office
> (docx) or OpenOffice (odt), LibreOffice (odt) with a Java model to
> generate report and convert it if you need to another format (PDF,
XHTML...).
> Regards
>
> Biao Han (Devin)
> SOA Standards Growth, Emerging Technology Institute(ETI), IBM China
> Software Development Laboratory
> Tel:(86-10)82450541
> Email: hanbiao@cn.ibm.com
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