AODL

AODL (An Open Document Library)

Summary

AODL is the .net module of the ODF Toolkit. The library is completly written in pure C# and can be used to extend your .net based software to support the OpenDocument Format. To use AODL within your projects respectively software there is no need of a deep knowlegde of the OpenDocument Format itself. It would be helpfull to understand what's going behind the scenes and for writing your own extensions, but as mentioned before this isn't a fundamental requirement.

Main Features

Until now, the following fundamental operations are supported by AODL:

• Creating new documents in the text and the spreadsheet format.
• Loading and manipulating documents in the text and spreadsheet (not complete yet) format.
• Initial support for Charts within Spreadsheet Documents.
• Export loaded or created documents into the HTML format (text and spreadsheet documents).
• Export loaded or created documents into the PDF Format. (this is in an early state of implementation and only available for text documents)

ODF implemented Features

• Reading, editing, creating and saving documents in the OpenDocument text format (TextDocument class).
• Reading, editing, creating and saving documents in the OpenDocument spreadsheet format (SpreadsheetDocument class).
• ParagraphBuilder class, this class offer several methods for the creation of often used Paragraphs types.
• TableBuilder class, this class offer several methods for the creation of often used Table types.
• TextBuilder class, this class offer several methods for the simple creation of ITextCollections that will be used within a Paragraph.
• SizeConverter class, this class offer size conversation and size type conversation methods for height and width properties of AODL OpenDocument objects.
• Colors class, this class offer the possibility to convert any .net system color to the corresponding color used in any document in the OpenDocument format.
• Support for common styles. These are e.g used by OpenOffice as style templates.
• Reading and writing of the documents metadata.
• Full Paragraph support incl. Paragraphstyle and Paragraphproperties.
• Full Header support incl. Headerstyle and Proeperties.
• List support (number and bullet) support incl. Liststyle and Listproperties.
• Full Table of Contents support incl. Sectionstyles.
• Full Table support with nested table up to any depth and cellmerging support.

     - Full support for Rows incl. Rowstyle and Rowproperties.
     - Full support for Columns incl. Columnstyle and Columnproperties.
     - Full support for Cells incl. Cellstyle and Cellproperties.      

• Text support incl. Textstyle and textproperties.
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  Take a look at this page to see a complete list of existing features.
   

FAQ

The AODL FAQ (where to get the source, requirements, ..)

Source Code and Download

• Download of the binary releases.
• CVS checkout of the current AODL source code.

Code Snippets and Examples

Here you will find several AODL code examples / snippets. Larger examples in form of Sample Applications a part of the source code.
 

Further Information

The ODF Toolkit Wiki page.
The ODF Toolkit project homepage on the OpenOffice.org website. A Wish List for additional features and enhancements.