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Re: [EP-tech] .docx Export

Hi John,

thanks for your quick answer. With your help, I could more or less do
what I want with the document saving it to some path on the server.

However, I'm struggling to find out how to return the actual document in
my export plugin's "output_list" subroutine. Returning $oodoc or the
file path doesn't work, obviously. Can you help me out once more, please?

Cheers,
Dennis

Am 10.07.20 um 15:33 schrieb John Salter:
> Hi Dennis,
> I think you should be able to achieve this.
> It's similar to the way the OpenOffice / Coversheets works.
> That's normally configured to export as a PDF, but it first takes an OpenOffice document (your branded template), and replaces tags (like '##TITLE##') with rendered content.
> 
> These are the tags:
> https://github.com/eprintsug/coversheets/blob/master/cfg/cfg.d/z_coversheet_tags.pl
> and this adds them to the OpenOffice document:
> https://github.com/eprintsug/coversheets/blob/master/lib/plugins/EPrints/Plugin/Convert/AddCoversheet.pm#L114-L127 
> 
> Does that help?
> 
> There are probably other ways - possibly other perl modules that would allow a more direct approach - but the above stuff seems to work OK.
> I'm using it with LibreOffice rather than OpenOffice if that's useful to know too.
> 
> Cheers,
> John
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: eprints-tech-bounces@ecs.soton.ac.uk [mailto:eprints-tech-bounces@ecs.soton.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Dennis Müller via Eprints-tech
> Sent: 10 July 2020 14:15
> To: eprints-tech@ecs.soton.ac.uk
> Subject: [EP-tech] .docx Export
> 
> Hi everyone,
> 
> we've had a user request for exporting views/searches as a .docx file
> styled in our corporate design. Has anyone ever done something similar?
> 
> Just for the file format, it might work to "wrap" a simple text export
> in an exporter that has a
> "application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document" mimetype,
> but I don't see where I could slip in the design template along the way.
> 
> I'd be glad to hear from your experiences. :)
> 
> Best regards
> Dennis
> 

-- 
Dennis Müller, B.A.


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