[Solved] How do I find filters for export?

ptoye · Post by **ptoye** » Thu Feb 12, 2015 9:06 pm

I may need to use a macro to save a Write document in one of PDF, RTF or Ms-Word format (don't know which yet). I've found a list of filters in FilterFactory, but their names don't say whether they're input or output filters. Anyone here got any idea how to find out?

Or are filters bi-directional, in which case I assume I need "writer_pdf_Export", "Rich Text Format", and "MS Word 97"?

Post by **FJCC** » Thu Feb 12, 2015 9:18 pm

Does this help? https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Framew ... st_OOo_3_0
I'm not sure it is up to date.

ptoye · Post by **ptoye** » Thu Feb 12, 2015 9:29 pm

Brilliant. Thanks. It seems to have the filters I need, and they all support export. Now I'll try them out.

How do you manage to find these things?

Post by **FJCC** » Thu Feb 12, 2015 9:32 pm

ptoye wrote:How do you manage to find these things?

Too many hours having "fun" with this software.

ptoye · Post by **ptoye** » Fri Feb 13, 2015 11:50 am

Ah....

I have to say that I find OOBasic the least "fun" language that I've ever had to deal with.

ptoye · Post by **ptoye** » Wed Feb 25, 2015 2:18 pm

I tried out the PDF filter and it worked fine, so I assume the others will. Thanks again FJCC for your help.

edit this topic's initial post · Post by **Villeroy** » Wed Feb 25, 2015 2:48 pm

ptoye wrote:Brilliant. Thanks. It seems to have the filters I need, and they all support export. Now I'll try them out.

How do you manage to find these things?

You can ask the software itself about its capabilities.

ptoye · Post by **ptoye** » Wed Feb 25, 2015 4:59 pm

Thanks Villeroy. I don't speak Python - it was invented after I ave up serious programming. I sort of see what it's doing, but my main question to FJCC was how to find out which API function to call to get the information. The API documentation , as I've said many times here, is not exactly user-friendly. Once I knew it was com.sun.star.document.FilterFactory it was easy(ish). I think that if AOO (or LO) want to be taken seriously, they have to improve the level of documentation by an order of magnitude. Not easy, I know. But then software writing isn't easy either, it's just more fun.

edit this topic's initial post · Post by **Villeroy** » Wed Feb 25, 2015 5:49 pm

Extract the module to <user_profile>/Scripts/python/ and run the code via Tools>Macros.... The running office suite will dump all information into a searchable spreadsheet document.

ptoye · Post by **ptoye** » Wed Feb 25, 2015 9:34 pm

Wow! Thanks. But to be honest I prefer FJCC's solution. Less data but enough information, if you see what I mean.

edit this topic's initial post · Post by **Villeroy** » Wed Feb 25, 2015 9:57 pm

ptoye wrote:Wow! Thanks. But to be honest I prefer FJCC's solution. Less data but enough information, if you see what I mean.

That list is a static list of 2007 (OpenOffice 3.0). My macro generates a complete filter list for any recent version of AOO and LibreOffice. Todays LibreOffice list of suported file formats is much larger.

ptoye · Post by **ptoye** » Thu Feb 26, 2015 12:22 pm

Ah. I see. Thanks.

searchingforpants · Post by **searchingforpants** » Sat Jan 25, 2020 1:29 am

Villeroy wrote:Extract the module to <user_profile>/Scripts/python/ and run the code via Tools>Macros.... The running office suite will dump all information into a searchable spreadsheet document.

Sorry to bring this thread back from the dead, but where can one download the the Python module you mention that dumps all available filters for export?

edit this topic's initial post · Post by **Villeroy** » Sat Jan 25, 2020 12:20 pm

Sorry for being heedless. I moved that thing to a separate topic in the snippets forum: Print properties of TypeDetection and FilterFactory

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