[Sussex] OpenOffice from the shell

[Rupert Swarbrick]

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Geoffrey J. Teale wrote:
| nik butler <nik at reducedhackers.com> writes:
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|>Yes... well the thing about open office is that like Office its a
|>series of clever interlocking applictions with a gui wrap. I think
|>open Office has a high dependency on java but I think the key here is
|>that you can unwrap the document into its constituent and then use the
|>XML doc type and libraries to traverse the document and export
|>xhtml.
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| Actually OpenOffice 1.x has a fairly low dependency on Java (there are
| a couple of "wizards" that require it.  Sun just like to make it look
| like Java is a requirement for their own nefarious reasons.
|
| It's my experience that 8 out 10 cats think OpenOffice.org is written
| in Java - this simply isn't the case.
|
Aah. This _is_ supposed to be possible - using "VB" macros defined in a
file then using Ooo to 'open' that file, passing arguments a bit like
CGI. I believe.

I write this (hesitantly) because I wanted to export to .ps/.pdf in a
similar way about 6 months ago, saw lots of mailing lists from google
saying it was possible and failed miserably myself.

So if you do manage it, I'd be quite interested in exactly what you did
- - I noticed that most of the examples shown when I searched were for
Windows, so I wondered whether there was a dependency somewhere I didn't
have.

Good luck,

Rupert

P.S. In the end I only had to do the export ~35 times, so I buckled down
with injured pride and just did it. :-(
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