OpenOffice::OOBuilder - Perl OO interface for creating OpenOffice documents.

NAME

OpenOffice::OOBuilder - Perl OO interface for creating OpenOffice documents.

SYNOPSIS

See the documentation of the derived classes.

DESCRIPTION

OOBuilder is a Perl OO interface for creating OpenOffice documents. OOBuilder is the base class for all OpenOffice documents. Depending on the type of document you want to create you have to use a derived class.

At this moment only spreadsheet (sxc) documents are supported. See the documentation of the derived class OOCBuilder for more information.

METHODS

new

  Don't call this directly. Must be called through a derived class.

set_title ($title)

  Set $title as title of your document.

get_title

  Returns the title of your document

set_author ($author)

  Set $author as author of your document.

get_author

  Returns the author of your document.

set_subject ($subject)

  Set $subject as subject of your document.

get_subject

  Returns the subject of your document.

set_comments ($comments)

  Set $comments as comments of your document.

get_comments

  Returns the comments of your document.

set_keywords (@keywords)

  Set @keywords as all keywords of your document.

push_keywords (keywords)

  Add one (if scalar supplied) or more (if list supplied) new keywords
  to your document.

get_keywords

  Returns the keywords of your document in an array.

set_meta ($nb, $name, $value)

  Set meta data. $nb is the meta number (between 1 and 4). 
  $name is the name of your meta data. If ommited we'll take "meta$nb".
  $value is the new value of your meta data.

get_meta

  not yet implemented

set_bold ($bold)

  Set active font: bold: 1 to active, 0 to deactivate.

set_italic ($italic)

  Set active font: italic: 1 to active, 0 to deactivate.

set_underline ($underline)

  Set active font: underline: 1 to active, 0 to deactivate.

set_align ($align)

  Set align: allowed values: right, center, justify or left
  Else returns 0.

set_txtcolor ($txtcolor)

  Set the text color. $txtcolor can be a predefined value like red,
  green, blue, white or black. Or it can be specified in RGB in the 
  form ff0000 (ie. as red). This returns 0 if the color can't be 
  set.

set_bgcolor ($bgcolor)

  Set the text color. $bgcolor can be a predefined value like red,
  green, blue, white or black. Or it can be specified in RGB in the 
  form ff0000 (ie. as red). This returns 0 if the color can't be 
  set.

set_font ($font)

  Available fonts are : Arial, Bitstream Vera Sans, Bitstream Vera Serif,
  Bookman, Courier, Courier 10 Pitch, Helvetica, Lucidabright, Lucidasans,
  Lucida Sans Unicode, Lucidatypewriter, Luxi Mono, Luxi Sans, Luxi Serif,
  Symbol, Tahoma, Times, Times New Roman, Utopia, Zapf Chancery, 
  Zapf Dingbats.
  Returns 0 if the font isn't available.

set_fontsize ($size)

  Set font size. Returns 0 if not succeeded.

set_builddir ($builddir)

  Set build directory. The target file will be placed in this directory.
  This directory will also be used for creating the temporary files, 
  needed for creating the target file. Builddir is '.' by default.
  Returns 0 if the $builddir doesn't exist.

get_builddir

  Returns the build directory.

generate ($tgtfile)

  Don't call this method directly. This method should be called from 
  the derived class.

EXAMPLES

Look at the examples directory supplied together with this distribution.

SEE ALSO

the OpenOffice::OOCBuilder manpage for creating spreadsheets.

http://www.maygill.com/oobuilder

Bug reports and questions can be sent to <oobuilder(at)maygill.com>. Attention: make sure the word <oobuilder> is in the subject or body of your e-mail. Otherwhise your e-mail will be taken as spam and will not be read.

AUTHOR

Stefan Loones

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

Copyright 2004, 2005 by Stefan Loones

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

 OpenOffice::OOBuilder - Perl OO interface for creating OpenOffice documents.