org-odt on Windows 7

org-odt on Windows 7

[sebastian.titz]

Hello,

I tried the new org-odt exporter in org-mode 7.6 running emacs 23.3
on Windows 7 with (org-export-as-odt). It stops before generating an
output with the error message: Searching for program: no such file or
directory, zip. I guess it is caused by not having a command line  
version of zip in Windows.

Is there a way to use org-odt under windows?

Best,

Sebastian

Re: org-odt on Windows 7

[Bastien]

Ciao Sebastian,

sebastian.titz@unina.it writes:

> I tried the new org-odt exporter in org-mode 7.6 running emacs 23.3
> on Windows 7 with (org-export-as-odt). It stops before generating an
> output with the error message: Searching for program: no such file or
> directory, zip. I guess it is caused by not having a command line  version
> of zip in Windows.
>
> Is there a way to use org-odt under windows?

Perhaps you can first try to get a command line version of zip 
under Windows 7?

If you manage to get this, the ODT exporter will need to set a 
variable to let the user define the patch for this executable.

But I'm not using Windows, so I can help more about the details.

HTH,

-- 
 Bastien

Re: org-odt on Windows 7

[Sebastian]

Bastien <bzg <at> altern.org> writes:
> 
> Ciao Sebastian,
> 
> sebastian.titz <at> unina.it writes:

> > Is there a way to use org-odt under windows?
> 
> Perhaps you can first try to get a command line version of zip 
> under Windows 7?
> 
> If you manage to get this, the ODT exporter will need to set a 
> variable to let the user define the patch for this executable.
> 
> But I'm not using Windows, so I can help more about the details.
> 
> HTH,
> 

I found a solution. 
Info-zip (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Info-ZIP) did the
trick for me. No patches needed. 
I just added the binary to the PATH and it worked. 

org-odt is great. I can really see myself using it for shorter tasks. 
Thank you
for adding it to orgmode. 

Sebastian 

Re: org-odt on Windows 7

[Sebastien Vauban]

Sebastian and all,

Sebastian wrote:
> I found a solution. 
> Info-zip (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Info-ZIP) did the
> trick for me. No patches needed. 
> I just added the binary to the PATH and it worked. 

Other solution: install the zip package from Cygwin. Tested, works.

Best regards,
  Seb

-- 
Sebastien Vauban

Re: org-odt on Windows 7

[Bastien]

Sebastian <sebastian.titz@unina.it> writes:

> I found a solution. 
> Info-zip (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Info-ZIP) did the
> trick for me. No patches needed. 
> I just added the binary to the PATH and it worked. 

Thanks for sharing this solution!

-- 
 Bastien

[PATCH 2/2] org-odt: Check for zip early during export (was Re: org-odt on Windows 7)

[Jambunathan K]

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sebastian.titz@unina.it writes:

> Hello,
>
> I tried the new org-odt exporter in org-mode 7.6 running emacs 23.3
> on Windows 7 with (org-export-as-odt). It stops before generating an
> output with the error message: Searching for program: no such file or
> directory, zip. I guess it is caused by not having a command line
> version of zip in Windows.

The simple patch below tries to check for availability of zip very early
in the export.


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From 043a85d0826eb9a6a1e28792b8a701c74ff18623 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jambunathan K <kjambunathan@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2011 16:54:40 +0530
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] org-odt: Check for zip early during export

* contrib/lisp/org-odt.el (org-odt-init-outfile): Abort export
if zip utility is not available.
---
 contrib/lisp/org-odt.el |    4 ++++
 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/contrib/lisp/org-odt.el b/contrib/lisp/org-odt.el
index c1c5b7f..b7e5a70 100644
--- a/contrib/lisp/org-odt.el
+++ b/contrib/lisp/org-odt.el
@@ -1226,6 +1226,10 @@ MAY-INLINE-P allows inlining it as an image."
     (apply 'org-lparse-format-tags tag text prefix suffix args)))
 
 (defun org-odt-init-outfile (filename)
+  (unless (executable-find "zip")
+    ;; Not at all OSes ship with zip by default
+    (error "Executable \"zip\" needed for creating OpenDocument files. Aborting."))
+
   (let* ((outdir (make-temp-file org-export-odt-tmpdir-prefix t))
 	 (mimetype-file (expand-file-name "mimetype" outdir))
 	 (content-file (expand-file-name "content.xml" outdir))
-- 
1.7.2.3


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>
> Is there a way to use org-odt under windows?
>
> Best,
>
> Sebastian
>
>
>

-- 

Re: [PATCH 2/2] org-odt: Check for zip early during export (was Re: org-odt on Windows 7)

[Bastien]

Jambunathan K <kjambunathan@gmail.com> writes:

>> I tried the new org-odt exporter in org-mode 7.6 running emacs 23.3
>> on Windows 7 with (org-export-as-odt). It stops before generating an
>> output with the error message: Searching for program: no such file or
>> directory, zip. I guess it is caused by not having a command line
>> version of zip in Windows.
>
> The simple patch below tries to check for availability of zip very early
> in the export.

Applied, thanks!

-- 
 Bastien