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Closed 17 years ago

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#1712 closed enhancement (duplicate)

Allow Excel and Word files be viewed in "Browse Source"

Reported by: cmgreen@… Owned by: Jonas Borgström
Priority: normal Milestone:
Component: version control/browser Version: 0.8.4
Severity: normal Keywords: word excel
Cc: mjlucas@… Branch:
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Description

The project I'm using trac for has lots of word and excel documents in it that store various aspects of our project. Using xlhtml and wvware, I spit out either text or html fragments that is usable for viewing word docs. In the future, I'd like to support diffs between these word/excel documents.

I've worked on trac 0.8.4 and I noticed that this functionality is acts differently on the trunk. Hopefully, this will be able to move forward without much of an issue.

In File.py, I had to make some changes and pass both a "utf8" and a "raw" version of read data to the Mimeviewer api. This was necessary because the utf8 encoding broke the word document; The image plugin seems to ignore the data and work around the issue by grabbing the RAW data.

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word.excel.diff (8.8 KB ) - added by cmgreen@… 19 years ago.
Allow Trac to use wvhtml and xlhtml to view word and excel files
word.excel.2.diff (8.8 KB ) - added by cmgreen@… 19 years ago.
Revised handling of excel files

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by cmgreen@…, 19 years ago

Attachment: word.excel.diff added

Allow Trac to use wvhtml and xlhtml to view word and excel files

by cmgreen@…, 19 years ago

Attachment: word.excel.2.diff added

Revised handling of excel files

comment:1 by Matthew Good, 19 years ago

The 0.8 branch is only being updated for vital bugfixes. Patches for new features should be made against the trunk.

comment:2 by mjlucas@…, 18 years ago

Has anything been done about this bug? It is still listed as new and linked against a old version.

It would be a useful feature for Trac since a lot of documentation of projects is still written in Word.

comment:3 by anonymous, 18 years ago

Cc: mjlucas@… added

comment:4 by Emmanuel Blot, 18 years ago

IMHO, this bug should be closed as "wontfix": this feature (support for platform-specific files) would better be implemented as a plugin.

comment:5 by Matthew Good, 18 years ago

#2254 has been marked as a duplicate.

comment:6 by sid, 17 years ago

Agreeing with eblot - seems perfect for a plugin (and a wontfix for this ticket).

in reply to:  description comment:7 by Christian Boos, 17 years ago

Resolution: duplicate
Status: newclosed

Replying to cmgreen@uab.edu:

… In the future, I'd like to support diffs between these word/excel documents.

Yes, this is something we should definitely have, pluggable diff viewers. See #53.

Replying to sid:

Agreeing with eblot - seems perfect for a plugin

ok for a plugin in this case, but the appropriate interfaces are not yet finalized (see #3332)

(and a wontfix for this ticket).

Rather a duplicate of #3332 and #53.

comment:8 by anonymous, 16 years ago

has somebody written a plugin for this?

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