Ken Starks wrote: > krishnakant Mane wrote: >> hello, >> right now I am involved on doing a very important accessibility work. >> as many people may or may not know that I am a visually handicap >> person and work a lot on accessibility. the main issue at hand is to >> create an accessible editor for open office. >> there are a lot of things remaining on that front. >> so right now I am trying to find out a temporary work around by >> creating a simple accessible editor (with wxpython) for viewing and >> editing open office files. >> I know there must be python libraries that can open/ save .odt files >> because it is an open standard any ways. >> but I am trying to work out a kind of a program where those files can >> also be displayed in a text area with all the formatting. >> probably one way of doing it is to use some thing like a rich text >> editor and allow the file to be converted to rtf from odt for viewing >> and back again to odt when the user wishes to save it. >> another way I find is to actually find out if there is a odt text box >> that can display these files as they are. >> viewing the contents of the files in an editable way is most important. >> any suggestions? >> regards. >> Krishnakant. > > There is an O'Reilly Book about hacking the Open Office Format, and > it is available free on line in both html and pdf. More expensive but well reviewed is: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/customer-reviews/013148205X/ref=cm_cr_dp_pt/103-7133293-6391046?ie=UTF8&n=283155&s=books
Colin W. > > Open office files are a variation on 'Zipped' archives and > many unzip tools can be used to open them, apart from ones > that insist on a .zip extension. These include python tools. > > The one 'case study' in the book that uses python is actually for > a spreadsheet, but that makes little difference to the > 'unzipping' part. You can find it at: > > http://books.evc-cit.info/odbook/ch05.html#modify-spreadsheet-section > > Once you have the raw XML you should be able to convert it to any one of > many more accessible XML formats, for screen readers, brail > printers and so on. I don't know much about them, but hopefully you > do! > > Don't re-invent the wheel! You will find quite a few ways on the Open > Office Wiki for converting the format to other things. You can also > daisy-tail the XSLT files; for example use one to convert to xhtml and > a second that converts xhtml to text. > > Example (Display write files in the 'Firefox' browser). > http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Firefox_ODFReader_extension > > > Don't forget that Open Office already has PDF export facilities, and > Acrobat reader already has some accessibility ability for simple > documents (i.e single column, 'start at the beginning, keep going until > you get to the end, and then stop'). For adding structure to other PDF > files you would need Acrobat Professional or software that can export > 'tagged' PDFs. > > The case-study code is: > > import xml.dom > import xml.dom.ext > import xml.dom.minidom > import xml.parsers.expat > import sys > import od_number > from zipfile import * > from StringIO import * > > if (len(sys.argv) == 4): > > # Open an existing OpenDocument file > # > inFile = ZipFile( sys.argv[1] ) > > # ...and a brand new output file > # > outFile = ZipFile( sys.argv[2], "w", ZIP_DEFLATED ); > > getParameters( sys.argv[3] ) > > # > # modify all appropriate currency styles > # > fixCurrency( "styles.xml" ) > fixCurrency( "content.xml" ) > > # > # copy the manifest > # > copyManifest( ) > > inFile.close > outFile.close > else: > print "Usage: " + sys.argv[0] + " inputfile outputfile parameterfile" -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
