source: trunk/greenorg/macros/plugins.dm@ 7649

package plugins

_content_ {

_pageheading_(Plugins)

<p>Greenstone incorporates plugins for many different file formats, listed below. But we are always looking for more! If there is a specific plugin you would like us to write on a contractual basis then <a href="mailto:[email protected]">contact us</a>. Also, we welcome contributions of 
code to enable us to extend Greenstone. A list of plugins we would like appears <a href="#below">below</a>.

_pageheading_(Existing plugins in Greenstone v2.51)

<table style="border: thin solid #C0C0C0; padding: 0.5em; margin: 0 1em;" rules="all" summary="">
<tr><th>Plugin name</th><th>Description</th></tr>

<tr><td valign=top>BibTexPlug.pm</td><td>BibTex files</td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top>DBPlug.pm</td><td>Generic database files 
(requires additional Perl setup)</td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top>EMAILPlug.pm</td><td>Saved email files (not MS OutLook format though)</td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top>ExcelPlug.pm</td><td>Microsoft Excel files</td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top>FOXPlug.pm</td><td>FOX database files</td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top>HTMLPlug.pm</td><td>HTML files</td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top>ISISPlug.pm</td><td>ISIS database files</td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top>ImagePlug.pm</td><td>JPEG, GIF etc see <a href="http://www.imagemagick.org/www/formats.html">http://www.imagemagick.org/www/formats.html</a>
</td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top>LaTeXPlug.pm</td><td>LaTeX files</td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top>MARCPlug.pm</td><td>MARC metadata</td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top>MP3Plug.pm</td><td>MP3 audio files</td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top>OAIPlug.pm</td><td>Open Archives data</td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top><em>to be added</em></td><td>Ogg Vorbis Files</td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top>PDFPlug.pm</td><td>PDF files</td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top>PPTPlug.pm</td><td>Microsoft Powerpoint</td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top>PSPlug.pm</td><td>Postscript</td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top>ProCitePlug.pm</td><td>ProCite files</td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top>RTFPlug.pm</td><td>RTF files</td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top>ReferPlug.pm</td><td>Refer files</td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top>SRCPlug.pm</td><td>Source code (C/C++, Perl, Shell)</td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top>TEXTPlug.pm</td><td>Plain text (.txt)</td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top>WordPlug.pm</td><td>Microsoft Word documents</td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top>XMLPlug.pm</td><td>XML files</td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top>ZIPPlug.pm</td><td>Unzips tar, jar, zip, gzip and bz  files and sends content down plugin pipeline</td></tr>
</table>
   
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_pageheading_(Potential New Plugins)
   
<strong>Documents/Office formats:</strong>
<ul>
<li>OpenOffice file formats, 
<ul>
<li>Writer (.sxw)</li>
<li>Calc (.sxd)</li>
<li>Impress (.sxi)</li>
<li>Draw (.sxd)</li>
</ul></li>
<li>StarOffice formats (.sdc, .sdw etc)</li>
<li>Kword (all Koffice formats)</li>
<li>AbiWord</li>
<li>Wordperfect</li>
</ul>

<strong>Video:</strong>
<ul>
<li>MPEG</li>
<li>Quicktime (.mov)</li>
<li>AVI (Audio Video Interleave), Microsoft video</li>
<li>Real Media formats</li>
</ul>

<strong>Audio:</strong>
<ul>
<li>Windows Media Audio (.wma)</li>
<li>Windows audio (.wav)</li>
<li>Sun Audio (.au)</li>
<li>Audio Interchange File Format (.aiff)</li>
<li>MIDI (.mid)</li>
<li>MIDI karoke (.kar)</li>
<li>CD Audio (.cda)</li>
<li>Shorten (.shn)</li>
</ul>

<strong>Bibliographic:</strong>
<ul>
<li>Endnote</li>
</ul>


<strong>Images:</strong>
<ul>
<li>DjVu (.djvu)</li>
<li>Photoshop (.psd)</li>
<li>PaintShopPro (.psp)</li>
</ul>

<strong>Macinstosh archives:</strong>
<ul>
<li>.hqx Mac archive</li>
<li>.sit</li>
<li>Self extracting Archive (.sea)</li>
</ul>

<strong>Others:</strong>
<ul>
<li>Scalable Graphics Format (.svg)</li>
<li>Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language SMIL (.smil)</li>
<li>Macromedia Flash (.fla)</li>
<li>Macromedia shockwave (.swf)</li>
<li>OpenGL</li>
<li>VRML/X3D</li>
<li>TrueType fonts (TTF)</li>
</ul>
}