Re: [hylafax-users] faxcover coverpages, Was: **ANNOUNCE** Second release candidate of 4.3.1 now available

[Joe <joe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Lee Howard wrote:
> Joe wrote:
>
> > Lee Howard wrote:
> > <snip>
> >
> > > Yeah it's a bit cumbersome.  Yeah reading PostScript is not 
> > > particularly intuitive.  Yeah there are problematic variants of 
> > > PostScript.  However, right now - other than writing our own 
> > > cross-platform GUI coverpage creation program - it seems to be the 
> > > best approach.
> > >
> > > Lee.
> >
> > Could the Open Document Format be used in some way?  Use Openoffice to
> > create templates... leave tags where you want them...  parse the odt
> > file, substitute your data for the tags...  convert odt to ps (don't
> > know how that will be done). 
>
>
> Show us how this (both parsing and format conversion) would be done, and 
> I can figure out how to get it into faxcover.  Then together we can 
> evaluate how well that works as a solution.  On the surface, however, I 
> don't see how we'd be able to convert from odt to ps/pdf without 
> introducing a dependency on some OpenOffice compatibility library or 
> something.
>
> Lee.

I was just thinking out loud.  As I stated above "don't know how that will
be done"  :)   However there is a proposal for odf2pdf at
opendocumentfellowship.org.  They apparently already have odt2html but I
haven't tried it.

http://opendocumentfellowship.org/development/projects

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