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QTF to ODF (Open Document Format) converter [message #44128]

Mon, 29 December 2014 14:48

Oblivion
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Registered: August 2007

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Hello guys,

I use Open Document Format (odf) files daily, and I thought it might be a good idea to write a qtf to odf (and vice versa) converter.
I am well versed in ODF but not experienced with U++ RichText package's internals. I would like to ask you a question:

I don't want to duplicate code, and lose time, if it is unnecessary, so, is it possible to use RichText class and ParseQTF() directly for this purpose?
Or is there already a such qtf->odf converter package/funtction that I might have missed? All I need is a parser that can build a structure from a qtf text, so that I can convert it into a ODF file.

Regards,
Oblivion.

Github page: https://github.com/ismail-yilmaz
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Re: QTF to ODF (Open Document Format) converter [message #44130 is a reply to message #44128]

Tue, 30 December 2014 16:13

Didier
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Registered: November 2008
Location: France

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Hi Oblivion,

AFAIK, there is no QTF->ODF conversion code, but you can convert QTF to the following formats very easily:

PDF
HTML
RTF

Maybe QTF->RTF is what you need (although RTF->QTF does not exist) since QTF is quite simple and can't do all that ODF or even RTF does.

QTF->RTF has a few bugs with text and table colors but works quite well otherwise

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Re: QTF to ODF (Open Document Format) converter [message #44131 is a reply to message #44130]

Tue, 30 December 2014 21:01

Oblivion
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Registered: August 2007

Senior Contributor

Quote:

Hi Oblivion,

AFAIK, there is no QTF->ODF conversion code, but you can convert QTF to the following formats very easily:

PDF
HTML
RTF

Maybe QTF->RTF is what you need (although RTF->QTF does not exist) since QTF is quite simple and can't do all that ODF or even RTF does.

QTF->RTF has a few bugs with text and table colors but works quite well otherwise

Hello Didier,

Thank you very much for your reply.
I guess I'll try RTF. I need something easily editable.
It also seems to me a good example on how to write an exporter/importer.

Regards,
Oblivion

Github page: https://github.com/ismail-yilmaz
Bobcat the terminal emulator: https://github.com/ismail-yilmaz/Bobcat

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Re: QTF to ODF (Open Document Format) converter [message #44132 is a reply to message #44131]

Thu, 01 January 2015 13:37

Didier
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Registered: November 2008
Location: France

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Hello Oblivion,

To export to RTF I usually do the following:

RichText richTextObj = myRichTextGenerator;
SaveFile(fileName, EncodeRTF( richTextObj, CHARSET_UTF8));

To use QTF you have to convert to//from RichText, so use the following code:

String qtfString AsQTF( richTextObj );
richTextObj = ParseQTF(qtfString);

For HTML you have the

EncodeHtml()

function

To convert to PDF, I use Report class:

Report r;
r << qtfString
r.Perform();

==> this opens a dialog displaying the report. If the PdfDraw Package is included, then a 'PDF' button is present and you can export to PDF Smile

Hope it helps

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Re: QTF to ODF (Open Document Format) converter [message #44136 is a reply to message #44130]

Fri, 02 January 2015 19:40

mirek
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Registered: November 2005

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Didier wrote on Tue, 30 December 2014 16:13

(although RTF->QTF does not exist)

Well, it does:

RichText ParseRTF(const char *rtf);

Mirek

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Re: QTF to ODF (Open Document Format) converter [message #44137 is a reply to message #44128]

Fri, 02 January 2015 20:58

Oblivion
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Registered: August 2007

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Hello guys,

Thank you very much for your help. I tried RTF converter and it works just fine and is sufficient for my needs.

Regards,
Oblivion.

Github page: https://github.com/ismail-yilmaz
Bobcat the terminal emulator: https://github.com/ismail-yilmaz/Bobcat

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