import generic doc on OSX

[matysek]

On Mac OS X it is not possible to import a song from 'Generic Document/Presentation'.

OpenLP is not able to find libre/open offfice on osx and use it for the document conversion and import.

[matysek (mzibricky)]

For implementation we could consider call Java api of libreoffice with python. For that we could consider the following python package:

https://pypi.python.org/pypi/py4j

[matysek (mzibricky)]

Probably better and crossplatform way would be to use unoconv ( https://github.com/dagwieers/unoconv )

- Unoconv is is a python script that should be run as terminal app with the python bundled with libre/openoffice.
- we could use 'unoconv' in openlp to find the openoffice installation then run the conversion in a subprocess like

    C:\Program Files (x86)\LibreOffice 3.5\program\python.exe unoconv -f pdf some-file.odt

Python script unoconv: https://github.com/dagwieers/unoconv/blob/master/unoconv

[Jonathan Corwin (j-corwin)]

So we'd convert it to a plain text file and then import that?

This would be OK for the generic doc/ppt as long as page breaks/slide breaks can be detected in the output file somehow.

However the "Songs of Fellowship" import relies on knowing where bold/italics/breaks are etc to figure out where verses/choruses are etc so this would still have difficulties. Although if there are any decent RTF parsers out there then someone really brave could go down that route.