Comments on: odf & docx in OpenOffice

By: ikd

ikd — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 16:41:20 +0000

Hi Dan,

An excellent question, albeit one that I don’t believe in. Let me clarify: Despite the rpm v. tgz. v. deb package differences, the docx converter is an openoffice.org extension and as such you install it from within Openoffice and not your linux version of choice. I have tested it in various platforms: Linux ubuntu, fedora, winxp and mac os x’s neooffice (that closely resembles openoffice).

Check the update of this post, here from the pages of this blog. It has newer information. And thanks for stopping by.

By: Dan

Dan — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 14:09:14 +0000

Hi there,

Any idea if this works on all versions of Linux / Open Office? Or is this just a Red Hat thing?

Thanks!

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By: ikd

ikd — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 08:25:43 +0000

@Andrew Z:
Thanks for the advice and the new link. As you can see, I have already updated the links and material.

By: Andrew Z

Andrew Z — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 05:57:30 +0000

The download link is dead. Here is a newer version and instructions on how to use it if you do not have Ubuntu/SUSE. The mainstream and Fedora versions of OpenOffice.org do not integrate with this tool.

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By: stew schneider

stew schneider — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 02:08:14 +0000

I do appreciate the help. I used alien to translate to a tar.gz file. I untarred it, and produced a directory named ooo-2.0. Inside ooo-2.0 were two other directories: program and share. Inside program was OdfConverter, an executable. share contained registry which contained modules which contained org which contained openoffice which contained TypeDetection which contained Filter and Types…I gave up. No lib, as you had.

Instead, I took a jab in the dark and executed OdtConverter against a .docx file. It correctly converted it. That’s good enough for me.

Thanks.

By: ikd

ikd — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 07:46:37 +0000

Perhaps I was not clear enough (in which case, my apologies). When you unpack the Odfconv archive, a directory is created, whose contents have to be copied in the system directories (where you have installed openoffice). Usually, this is the /usr/lib/openoffice, or if you use another location (as is my case), /opt/openoffice.

In my case, all downloads go to the directory ~/Downloads. There, I find:
~/Downloads/OdfConv/usr/ with two subdirectories: lib and share.

These are the directories which you have to copy to the location of your choice.

HTH,