Renewed request: Mellel & OmniOutliner support

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Thanks for the DT 2.0 development status announcement today! Excellent!

Here is a renewed request regarding “Support for many common file formats” & “Documents are stored as-is, can be edited externally” (depending on how implemented):
• Requesting Mellel support - I feel the most flexible, cleanest and robust word processor and supports many language;
• Requesting OmniOutliner support.

Your serious consideration of these formats is most appreciated.

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I’m curious, does anyone have OmniOutliner Pro and have you tried export to dynamic HTML? If you import this as a webarchive, does the whole outline become searchable in DTPO?

I only have the regular version of OmniOutliner and if I export to HTML, it only exports the rows that I have expanded, not the whole outline.

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Karen:

I have OmniOutliner Pro v3.6.5. I just ran a test and yes, exporting to HTML (dynamic) does give a searchable index.html page. Also the rendered page displays the row triangles which can be selected to open/display or close the indented sublevels (opened in DEVONthink Pro, DEVONagent, Safari, and Firefox).

Note, I only tested a single column outline with about four sublevels of indentation. I import everything into DTP (versus indexing).

A sample of the html generated table for a sublevel title “Documents Created” is:

Documents Created

The contents of the folder created by export (for my sample outline) are:
Unchecked.png
blank.png
Checked.png
Collapsed.png
Expanded.png
index.html
LeafRowHandle.png
Mixed.png
outliner.js

Hope this helps.

Stephen
paradigm26

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Thanks Stephen!

So that could be a work-around for those with OmniOutliner Pro.

I’d like to see OmniOutliner support in DTP, but until OO supports Quick Look, that might not be practical.

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I’m itching for Mellel support as well, but I o think this is a Mellel issue, not DT.

From what I understand, any files that create support for quicklook and spotlight will be supported in DT. I’m hoping Skim will also provide quicklook support.

I have made this request in the Mellel forum, but I suggest DT and Mellel users do the same. Quicklook and Spotlight support for Mellel is needed.

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That’s correct.

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Sorry if this is inappropriate, but… :blush:

Mellel is on sale for 50% off at maczot this weekend.

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I’ve been using Mellel for a couple of years now and have just recently been looking at DTPro. After realizing that Mellel files are invisible to DTP, I scanned the Forums (both here and Mellel) and discovered that this issue has been discussed for quite a while, with DTP 2.0 occasionally identified as the occasion for Mellel integration. Since 2.0 has been promised this year, and since for me Mellel integration is a deal-breaker, I thought it worth asking whether there might be any news about Mellel integration in DTP 2.0.

Is there?

Thanks

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DEVONthink 2 will depend on the existence of plugins provided by developers of proprietary file formats such as Mellel. As far as I can tell, there’s not yet a Quick Look plugin for Mellel, which would allow Leopard users to view Mellel documents via Quick Look.

However, on the Mellel forum I came across a developer post that notes plans to introduce a Quick Look plugin in version 2.5.5. See http://forum.redlers.com/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=1620&p=9772&hilit=quicklook#p9772.

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This is good news.

Thanks for the quick reply.