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Mon, 29 October 2007 06:51

Eclipse User

Hi,

May I know whether we can generate reports in .txt format using BIRT?
Also is it possible to convert pdf and xls files to txt format using BIRT
or is BIRT supports any such mechanism?

Regards,
Shomy Jose

Re: TXT format [message #259792 is a reply to message #259717]

Mon, 29 October 2007 11:06

Eclipse User

Shomy,

Straight to text is not supported. You could go to a Word doc and from there
save as text. That or you could build an emitter.

Scott Rosenbaum

> Hi,
>
> May I know whether we can generate reports in .txt format using BIRT?
> Also is it possible to convert pdf and xls files to txt format using
> BIRT
> or is BIRT supports any such mechanism?
> Regards,
> Shomy Jose

Re: TXT format [message #259815 is a reply to message #259792]

Mon, 29 October 2007 13:19

Eclipse User

Originally posted by: peter.koster.spamtrap.trapspam.industrial-tsi.com

On Mon, 29 Oct 2007 15:06:19 +0000, Scott Rosenbaum wrote:

> Straight to text is not supported. You could go to a Word doc and from
> there save as text.

BIRT and Eclipse being opensource, I would prefer to go to the real open
document ODF-format then, making use of the Open Source program found at
http://www.openoffice.org
Is that possible as well?

--
groet, HP

http://www.industrial-tsi.com

Re: TXT format [message #260104 is a reply to message #259815]

Wed, 31 October 2007 15:35

Eclipse User

Henk-Peter,

It is possible, but there is not currently a emitter that does that. It
would probably be easier to just right a straight to text emitter. The issue
becomes, how do you format the straight text output? Maybe you could provide
some more insight into what you want the emitter format to look like?

Scott

> On Mon, 29 Oct 2007 15:06:19 +0000, Scott Rosenbaum wrote:
>
>> Straight to text is not supported. You could go to a Word doc and
>> from there save as text.
>>
> BIRT and Eclipse being opensource, I would prefer to go to the real
> open document ODF-format then, making use of the Open Source program
> found at http://www.openoffice.org Is that possible as well?
>
> http://www.industrial-tsi.com
>

Re: TXT format [message #260108 is a reply to message #259815]

Wed, 31 October 2007 15:43

Eclipse User

Henk-Peter,

One option would be to take the existing plug-in org.eclipse.birt.report.engine.emitter.wpml
and modify it to be a text only or a word open doc format. If you look in
the WpmlWriter class is used to write the document. It seems possible that
through modification of the WpmlWriter you could end up with the output that
you would like.

scott

> On Mon, 29 Oct 2007 15:06:19 +0000, Scott Rosenbaum wrote:
>
>> Straight to text is not supported. You could go to a Word doc and
>> from there save as text.
>>
> BIRT and Eclipse being opensource, I would prefer to go to the real
> open document ODF-format then, making use of the Open Source program
> found at http://www.openoffice.org Is that possible as well?
>
> http://www.industrial-tsi.com
>

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