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EuroZopeCon Amsterdam: January 23-24, 2001 News Item 5 K 2000-12-14  
FileFolder Software Package   2000-10-02

A FileFolder is a modified Folder. It differs from the regular Folder in that only File objects (instead of DTMLDocuments or Images) are created when using HTTP PUT or FTP STOR in the folder, and FileFolders are created (instead of Folders) when using WebDAV MKCOL or FTP MKD.

This product was created so I can use Zope as, basically, an vanilla integrated HTTP / FTP / DAV server and give access to unsophisticated users with tools like a FTP client. Those users need not be aware of anything about Zope programming.
HTMLDocument Software Package   2001-12-29

HTMLDocument information

NEW (version 0.3): should be compatible with Zope 2.4, includes a patch to support WebDAV properly (text/html file uploads are automatically instanciated as HTMLDocuments). Also includes a few unit tests.

HTML Documents contain inert HTML code (no run time DTML expansion), with very basic skinning support: everything before (resp. after) the <body> (resp. </body>) tag is replaced by standard_html_header (resp. standard_html_footer).

HTML Documents get some of their properties from HTML meta-data: title, author, source, publisher, description...

On machine where the tidy HTML conformance testing program is installed, an extra tab is added to the management interface.

Note: this project is very similar to what is described in How-To: Applying wrappers to uploaded (FTP) HTML files but was developped independently.
First public release of HTMLDocument product News Item 1 K 2001-05-06  
NuxDocument Software Package   2003-04-01

What is NuxDocument ?

NuxDocument is a Zope product that represents generic documents by using plugins to convert native productivity suite formats to HTML (for viewing or previewing in a regular browser) or to plain text (for indexing).

NuxDocument is designed to run on Linux/Unix platforms, and uses external utilities wrapped in Python "plugins" to perform actual conversion.

There are currently 6 available plugins:

  • MSOffice (Word / Excel / PowerPoint)

    Needs: wvWare (http://www.wvware.com), xlhtml (http://www.xlhtml.org/) and ppthtml (http://www.xlhtml.org/ too).

  • OpenOffice.org (word processor / presentation / spreadsheet)

    Needs: xsltproc from libxml2 (http://xmlsoft.org/XSLT/) and unzip.

  • RTF

    Needs: GNU unRTF (http://www.gnu.org/directory/GNUunRTF.html).

  • PDF

    Needs: xpdf (http://www.foolabs.com/xpdf/).

  • HTML
  • Dumb

Note that the lynx web browser is also needed to run most of the NuxDocument plugins.

NuxDocument is an extension of Eric Barroca's MSWordDocument. It's CMF aware but limited to Unix/Linux-like platforms. It needs external programs to actually do the conversions.

We're starting to put internationalisation into NuxDocument using Localizer (http://www.nuxeo.org/localizer).

Installation

Install the product in Products (NOT lib/python/Products!). The ZNuxDocument product should appear in the ZMI.

If you want to use NuxDocument in the CMF, it's a bit more painful. You have to:

1) Go to portal_types in the CMF, s�lectionner the Contents tab, then Factory-based type information in the Add menu. Choose 'id'=NuxDocument and 'default type information'=NuxDocument: CMFNuxDocument.

2) Go to the portal_skins tool in the CMF, then the Contents tabs. Add a Filesystem Directory View. Choose Products/NuxDocument/skins/NuxDocument in the menu.

Then go to the Properties tab, and add NuxDocument after custom in each skin, then click Save.

NuxDocument should now appear in the CMF's Add Contents page.

WHAT'S NEW

Better MIME type support (icons, etc.)

Internationalisation.

Don't register a plugin when the appropriate external program is missing.

Improved metadata support (title, etc).

Fixed some problems with character encodings (UTF8 vs. Latin1 vs. etc.).

TODO

Fix all XXXes.

Improve metadata support (title, etc).

Provide useful error messages.

Correct bugs in file BOGUES (french).

Add a configurer ? (to set storage policy, character set policy).

Fix CMF unit tests (broken since CMF 1.3).

BUGS

If you find bugs, please start by running the unit tests: 

    EXPORT ZOPE_HOME=/your/zope/root
    cd Products/NuxDocument/tests
    python test_all.py

Plugin tests should all pass, except when some external tool is missing.

Send bug reports or comments to -> [email protected]

THANKS / CREDITS

Eric Barroca : implementation of MSWordDocument, beta-testing.

Jean-Paul Smets : discussion about initial plugin system design.

Dirk Datzert : initial implementation of XLS and PPT support and internationalisation support.

Juan David Ibanez Palomar : initial Localizer support.

Frank Bennett : bug report.

The Nuxeo CPS team : debugging.

Zope Corp, Pythonlabs and all the crew.

Chris H: bug report.

Florent Guillaume (Nuxeo): icon support, refactoring of plugins.

Bertrand Croq (Virtual Net): patches.
EuroZopeCon Amsterdam Final program News Item 1 K 2001-01-19  
First Zope book ever published on paper News Item 2 K 2001-06-26  
LinuxSlides educational website converted to Zope News Item 1 K 1999-11-19  
NuxDocument 0.9 released today News Item 1 K 2002-03-11  
French article about Zope News Item 1 K 2001-12-11  
Zope training in Paris, France, Oct. 15-18 News Item 1 K 2001-09-25  
zopeshell Software Package   2000-12-19

zopeshell is a shell-like utility to navigate in a Zope database, add folders, remove objects, and edit DTML documents and methods with your favorite Unix text editor.
zopeshell 0.1 released News Item 1 K 2000-05-06  
zopeshell 0.3 released News Item 1 K 2000-08-05  
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