Spam: The other white meat

Using the Antiword program, Media Mover now has its first text converter. Antiword can take Microsoft doc files and convert them to pdf, ps, and txt files, giving site admins the ability to get rid of those pesky MS files- or at least provide alternate formats.

For sites that have a number of doc files already on the site, Media Mover can batch convert these for you. For sites that want all uploaded files to be in the same format, Antiword gives you a good way to have your users files converted.

I just committed a rather nice piece of functionality to the FFmpeg Wrapper module. Files that are attached to Drupal nodes can be transcoded multiple times by a simple interface. Once you find settings that you like, you can attach your transcoded file back to the original node.

Whether you need to create a file for download, create a web-friendly format from a file, or just want to offer a high or low bandwidth versions, any file that is attached to a Drupal node via the upload form and can be transcoded with this tool.

FFmpeg Wrapper puts a link on the file attachments list to the FFmpeg Wrapper testing tool on files that FFmpeg can transcode- which helps identify bad file types quickly.

I've used Wordpress on and off for several years to power my rambling about code and work. It has served me well and I think offers some advantages over more robust platforms (mainly that it is a fairly refined tool for blogging) for straightforward tasks like blogging. This being said, wanting to showcase some of my work on Drupal a bit more clearly, having a major data loss last month, and needing to get more acustomed to Drupal 6 have made the proverbial push over the cliff to move to Drupal from Wordpress easier to stomach.