KoReport ODT Renderer

[C. Boemann]

On Monday 23 April 2012 09:15:56 Dag wrote:
> Søndag den 22. april 2012 16:35:34 Adam Pigg skrev:
> > Dag
> > 
> > In Plan, i see you have your own ODT renderer.
> 
> Yes,  I tried to make something that words could cope with and that at
> least looked similar to the generated report.
> 
> > It appears to be more
> > featureful than the one in libs/koreport, so perhaps you could move it
> > there?
> 
> I have this on the 2.5 feature list, but I it needs a bit of work before
> it's ready.
> 
> There are especially 2 issues I need to resolve:
> 1) How to control the width of columns. AFAICS odt auto distributes columns
> over the page width. (But there is some time since I looked at this, so
> maybe things have changed)
Odt doesn't but calligra textlayout doesn't handle columns yet. Words does 
handle page columns, but currently only distributed evenly. So test with 
Libreoffice when trying it out. Calligra will catch up eventually, but probably 
not right away.


> 2) How to handle generated fields, namely page number.
> 
> > Can you post a sample of what kind of ODT it produces?
> 
> ATM, it only generates text frames, since words didn't handle tables at the
> time I made this.