Generate Word and Powerpoint files

[Daniel Parry]

I'd like to generate word and power point files on a linux based
system. Populated with various random words from a dictionary to
create various different size files. I have this working for:
Excel, HTML, JSON, ODT, PDF, RTF, Text, and XML format but stumped
a bit for doc and ppt. Any one have any suggestions for hacks that
might make these last two formats possible, which don't include
starting up a windows instance somehow (^_^)

Thanks and best wishes,

Daniel

 

[ccc31807]

I'd like to generate word and power point files on a linux based
system.

Create XML documents using OOXML. It's as easy as using Perl for HTML
documents.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_Open_XML

http://rep.oio.dk/Microsoft.com/officeschemas/wordprocessingml_article.htm

http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/PresentationML

CC

 

[smallpond]

I'd like to generate word and power point files on a linux based
system. Populated with various random words from a dictionary to
create various different size files. I have this working for:
Excel, HTML, JSON, ODT, PDF, RTF, Text, and XML format but stumped
a bit for doc and ppt. Any one have any suggestions for hacks that
might make these last two formats possible, which don't include
starting up a windows instance somehow (^_^)

Thanks and best wishes,

Daniel

Please post a spec for those formats.

 

[Ben Bullock]

I'd like to generate word and power point files on a linux based system.
Populated with various random words from a dictionary to create various
different size files. I have this working for: Excel, HTML, JSON, ODT,
PDF, RTF, Text, and XML format but stumped a bit for doc and ppt. Any
one have any suggestions for hacks that might make these last two
formats possible, which don't include starting up a windows instance
somehow (^_^)

On Linux you could create your file in HTML or some other format and then
have OpenOffice.org save it in Microsoft Word's .doc or .ppt formats.

I don't know how to automate OpenOffice.org but I imagine it's possible.

 

[Daniel Parry]

Please post a spec for those formats.

In essence, I'm after formats suitable for testing the text
extraction capabilities of the java JCR jackrabbit system. I
believe jackrabbit is moving towards using apache tika, so the
formats are likely those listed here:

http://lucene.apache.org/tika/formats.html

Though I am particularly interested in word and power point docs,
which likely means the OLE2 Compound Document format?

Best wishes,

Daniel

 

[Ben Bullock]

Please post a spec for those formats.

The specs for the Office formats can be found at

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc313118.aspx