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[Terry Maiden <t.maiden AT att.net>]

Hi Sindi & Ron,

Please take a look at this.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenOffice.org

--- On Sat, 11/19/11, Ron Clarke <ariadne AT ausreg.com> wrote:

From: Ron Clarke <ariadne AT ausreg.com>
Subject: Re: [BL] odt to pdf convertor?
To: baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org
Date: Saturday, November 19, 2011, 5:03 PM

Hi Sindi,

On Sat, 19 Nov 2011 06:08:31 +0000 (UTC), sindi keesan wrote:
>>  Yes, it should be possible. But watch out for subdirs with long file
>> names and/or with spaces. And watch out for .png file names with
>> identical 1st 8 characters.

> These names were about 16 characters long so it won't work.
> That could be why I saw only ONE png file go by in DOS.

  Ah !  That makes things a bit more difficult.

> Why such ridiculously long file names?

  Does the name Microsoft mean anything to you ?

> How big is OpenOffice

  It is quite big.

>  and what are the dependencies?

  Can't remember off-hand. But I installed a version into BL2 (disabled
java to do it), so it is possible.

>  Can you install just the convertors?

   No. It is a whole package or nothing.

> Who invented OpenOffice?

  Not MS, but it has to deal with what MS and others produce.

> I just downloaded and installed for someone a 38MB conversion program
> (probably expands to three times that) which they needed in order to read
> docx files in Windows with a 3MB wordprocessor.

  My DOS docx2htm processor is quite small, and may run under
Windows. But I don't have any Windows to test it on.  :)

>  They also had MS Office 2000 on there.  Took forever to load and
> display a simple document.

  That doesn't surprise me. Docx and odt are such bloated formats it
takes a long time to process them all - most tags are redundant and are
automatically inserted whether thay are needed or not. I had to put a
progress bar into my converter so I could tell it was still working and
hadn't locked up !

> People write emails with MS wordprocessor instead of a text editor.

  Because they don't know any better.  :(

Ron

Ron Clarke
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