Re: Who maintains Omni Outliner for the Mac

--- In [email protected], Rick Price <rprice@...> wrote:
>
> A couple of questions for people who use the Mac.
> 
> 1) Who maintains Omni Outliner? I want to ask them some
> questions so I can support the conversion between Progect
> and Omni Outliner.
> 
> In particular I am looking for a way to store information
> about a document as a whole in some sort of attic.

The OmniGroup does provide the SDK with full documentation of the file
format.
<http://www.omnigroup.com/ftp/pub/software/MacOSX/Extras/OmniOutliner/OmniOutlinerSDK.zip>
Note that the documentation is itself an OO document. I could convert
it to something else, if needed. Otherwise, the best contact channel
is probably omnioutliner-sc6jspJ1wlAu+VYG3/[email protected] I could check on the
omnioutliner-users mailing list too. Sample documents are also
available for download.

> I will store per-record attic information in a hidden
> column, the issue is data for the whole project.
> 
> Any ideas welcome.

It might be possible to use Spotlight to store extra information
within a file's metadata, but that might be too specific to Mac OS X
unless being very careful about file transmission. Otherwise, perhaps
specific entries within the outline might be the best approach.

> 2) Is there a version of Omni Outliner for Linux or Windows?
> It would like to be able to run it myself so I can get
> things working more quickly.

There are no versions for operating systems other than Mac OS X. Due
to the heavy use of Cocoa, running OO on other systems would pose
quite a challenge. GNUstep probably isn't advanced enough to provide
the required capabilities for OmniGroup to even attempt a port.

They specifically mention the lack of PalmOS support at
<http://www.omnigroup.com/applications/omnioutliner/support/>, so once
this whole XML effort works, I'm sure they would jump on the
opportunity to point users toward a free Palm utility for outline access!

Chris









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