Hey everybody,
Thanks for your posts so far!
Here's where I'm at right now. I've been getting help on the OpenOffice.org forum by JohnV, who is entirely responsible for providing the code that works around the problem of OpenOffice deleting text after 64K worth of characters. There's still an error that pops up (probably from me guessing what the names of search strings are) but as soon as I get that ironed out, I'll post a new macro. Hopefully, the laborious documentation will get a lot shorter soon.
I'm planning to create this macro to output an RTF file as well as a PDF - is there a way you can have the Connect Software search for a specific heading type? That would allow for near-automatic bookmarking with RTFs, I think.
These are the ideas that I'd like to incorporate at some later point:
- User Prompt for Title, Author
- Automatically save file name as Author, Title
- Save in RTF, DOC, HTML, PDF and BBeb (eventually) with bookmarks for all supported documents
- Format page based on user prompt (for PDF output to Sony Reader, iREX Iliad, Amazon Kindle or whatever)
- Author and Title in Header (Is this already available in Sony Reader?)
- User prompt for font, size
If anybody has any more ideas for this lil' project, let me know! If we can get enough features put into macros, maybe somebody could code a utility that calls soffice.bin as a service and does everything in the background.
Thanks all,
Sam