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How can I create or read OpenOffice spreadsheets from Perl?

What is a good way to create and read an OpenOffice spreadsheet in Perl? ...

How To Format A Block of Code Within a Presentation?

I am preparing a presentation using Google Docs Presentation though I can also work on the presenation within Open Office that will include code snippets. Is there any easy way to perform basic syntax highlighting on the code snippets with either Google Docs or Open Office Presenter? Edit: Since I believe that I can find a way to embe...

loadComponentFromURL falls over and dies, howto do CPR?

hi guys Well I testing my jython program, that does some neat [".xls", ".doc", ".rtf", ".tif", ".tiff", ".pdf" files] -> pdf (intermediary file) -> tif (final output) conversion using Open Office. We moved away from MS Office due to the problems we had with automation. Now it seems we have knocked down many bottles related to show sto...

SharePoint and Office Open XML interaction question

Hi all, I've been frustrated by this for the entire weekend, plus a day or two, so any help would be significantly appreciated. I'm trying to write a program that can programmatically go into a SharePoint 2007 doc library, open a file, change the contents of the file, then put the file back. I've gotten all but the last part of this do...

OpenOffice command line PDF creation

I have some documentation written in OpenOffice, now I would like to include some of it as PDF files in the final build deliveries. Now I would like to do this with the automated build script. Is there a way to create a PDF file from OpenOffice with a command line command? ...

Programmatically launch multiple slide shows using python-uno

I have been using the python-uno interface to launch OpenOffice and run PowerPoint slideshows on a Linux-based noticeboard system. Now the customer wants to make a split-screen and show four different slide shows on the screen at the same time. But whenever I start a slide show in a second instance of OpenOffice, the first slide show wi...

Divide the content of a text document into categories, and view a partial text

When I go over a text document ,I divide the content into different categories by highlighting sentences with different colors. I would like to have the ability to create a set of categories , and then go over the text and mark a sentence and assign it to one of the categories. and then have the option to see a filtered text, that conta...

Problem with starting OpenOffice service (soffice) from Java (command working in commandline, but not from Java)

I want to exceute a simple command which works from the shell but doesn't work from Java. This is the command I want to execute, which works fine: soffice -headless "-accept=socket,host=localhost,port=8100;urp;" This is the code I am excecuting from Java trying to run this command: String[] commands = new String[] {"soffice","-headl...

OpenOffice and .NET

Is there a .NET API for OpenOffice? EDIT: Is there a OpenOffice SDK for .NET? ...

OpenOffice.org import csv with Java

How do I import a CSV file using OpenOffice.org APIs? I want to do this using the same functionality that is also provided when I open the same file using "CVS text" filter. ...

OpenOffice .xls export to PDF causes check boxes to overlap

OpenOffice Excel file export to PDF is being done programmatically and I wish to know if there is a way to resolve this issue by maybe passing some kind of flag or something during the conversion process which will make the cell background transparent in the PDF document. Please note an example PDF output. The original Excel file does n...

Changing the date format

Hi! In Calc I set a cell value to "2006/10/03 13:33:55.448" and Calc says it is Standard format. I'm doing this with Java and I want to set the format to "DD.MM.YY HH:MM:SS AM/PM": XNumberFormatTypes xFormatTypes = (XNumberFormatTypes) UnoRuntime.queryInterface(XNumberFormatTypes.class, xNumberFormats); int myDateFormat = xNumberFormat...

Open Office CMS?

Is there a CMS which integrates into Open Office similarly to Share point/MS Office? ...

How I can decrease time response from Open Office Service using JOD Coverter to Print to PDF?

We are currently using JOD Converter to send a word document to an open office service running in a different machine. The open office service is being hosted in a facility were they guarantee 100 Mbps bandwidth, we have three servers that print to this server hosting the open office service. 1. Amazon Cloud server (staging) takes abou...

How to use Openoffice calc add-in that returns a range?

I am writing an OpenOffice calc add-in that returns a range of strings: public String[][] myFunc(int v0, com.sun.star.table.XCellRange v1) When I try to use the function in OpenOffice and set a cell's value to =myFunc(0;A1:B1) Only the first value returned by myFunc is shown as the value of the cell. How can I make the value appear...

How to do Mailmerge in Openoffice using Vb.net

Hey All, Its 5th Question and apart of one i didnt get response from the experts.... Hope this time i will get the helping hand. I want to do mailmerge in openoffice using Vb.net and i am totally new with openoffice. i searched on net for some help to understand how to use openoffice with vb.net but all i get is half info.....So can u...

HTML formatting Problem : MS Word Document Generation with OpenOffice 2.4

I am using Openoffice.org to convert HTML document into a Microsoft Word document. We used divs to create a formatting block, but Openoffice is ignoring it. So we are forced to use tables and those, too are spilling out of the generated Word document on the right side. So i was wondering if there was any other way, where I can have form...

Good Single User Open Source Persistant Database that's easy to install and works with Open Office Base?

I'm creating a program for end-users, that's already written using MySQL and some OpenOffice.org Star Basic Macros. I was wondering if there was an open source single user database that would be easy enough for the average Joe to install, (or that I could write a macro to install it for him...) ...

How to find true cause of com.sun.star.uno.RuntimeException?

I'm trying to replace a field in an OpenOffice document using the OpenOffice Java API. I'm using the insertString method: xText.insertString(((XTextField) fieldMaster).getAnchor(), value.toString(), false); The stacktrace is as follows: [junit] com.sun.star.uno.RuntimeException: [junit] at com.sun.star.lib.uno.environm...

How to create a sidebar panel in OpenOffice?

I want to create an OpenOffice.org plug-in that adds a sidebar. I have successfully installed OpenOffice.org, OpenOffice.org SDK and NetBeans OpenOffice plug-in. I am familiar with Java, AWT and Swing, so no need to explain these concepts to me. Now, I want to create a sidebar Panel(or JPanel) in OpenOffice.org Writer application. How ...