RTF Export

Version 0.1

Copyright 2006 Mikko Ohtamaa

Description

RTF Export allows exporting content as RTF documents. An RTF document similiar to "view" tab is generated with one click.

Purpose

RTF is a standard text document format (trimmed down Microsoft Word format). All word processors can read and write RTF documents. Exporting documents in RTF is handy if

• One needs to send pages as mail
• One needs to edit extracted pages
• One needs to print pages

Licence

GPL, read licence.txt

Requirements

• Plone 2.1
• Optionally, DataGridField component is supported

Features

• Adds "Export RTF" action to your items
• Custom header and footer for exported documents
• Exporting text based fields
• Exporting DateTimeField
• Exporting DataGridField as a table

Future features

• Sorting out encoding and charsets
• Image export
• HTML->RTF conversion for formatted text so that rich edit fields are exported propeply

Quality assurance

• Some manual tests were performend
• This software is very much beta quality: do not expect it to work without manual hassle

Usage

See instructions in examples folder. You need to do some Python coding to integrate RTF Export with your item types.

Internal

RTFExport uses internally PyRTF library developed by  Simon Cusack.

There are some problems with live Product refresh and PyRTF. You'll get weird "self.doc = Document() TypeError: 'NoneType' object is not callable" errors.

Contact

If you wish to hire a professional Plone developer, please don't hesitate to contact me. I am willing to work abroad. Curriculum vitae here.

Mikko Ohtamaa

Oulu, Finland

miohtama@mail.student.oulu.fi