Question

We have the lastest version of Twiki running on RH Linux. 1 user group would ike to import their original documents into Twiki without having to do alot of cut and paste. Another user group would like to export the documents to use elsewhere, for example to convert the html to another format. Can you help with how to do this

-- Unknown author

Can TWiki not import some sort of starndard format like XML/XHTML/HTML with some sort of tag-to-twiki-structured-tag conversion?

Otherwise, a whole lot of existing documentation (Word, etc) lays rotting away in non-collaborative form and forces users to hand copy it into TWiki (ugh). I'm presuming that the MS Word's/Framemaker's/Interleaf's of the world can convert to XHTML/XML (or something similar)? Then maybe the aforementioned apps/formats can adjust their Styles to match Twiki markup?

I'm surprised that this import-existing-docs issue seems so unaddressed?

I'm also a complete Wiki newbie, so please take my comments with a grain of salt.

-- MattEngland - 05 Apr 2005

Environment

-- PeterJones - 05 Feb 2005

Answer

For the import I will trz the INCLUDE option as suggested in another question. To export documents is it possible incorporate unix commands like html2ps and then ps2pdf within the browser?

-- PeterJones - 05 Feb 2005

To export content see Codev.PrintUsingPDF, Plugins.PdfPlugin, Plugins.GenPDFAddOn, Plugins.PublishAddOn

-- PeterThoeny - 02 Mar 2005

So far as I know there isn't a ready made solution. There are several half to three-quarter baked ones though which migh work for you: KupuEditorAddOn, PowerEditPlugin, any topic in the plugin web which ends with ToTWiki and msoffice plugins

-- MattWilkie - 06 Apr 2005

Thus far these half-to-3/4-baked solutions look pretty good, although I have yet to try them out (only read about them); certainly the best thing I've seen in the world of any Wiki yet. Thanks!

-- MattEngland - 06 Apr 2005