Open Office install

tparker · Post by **tparker** » Wed Jul 29, 2009 9:56 am

The latest version of Open Office in the db is 3.0.1 and it says to
install cabextract before running the installer.
The version I am downloading to install is 3.1.0, does anyone know if I
still need to install cabextract first for that version?

DaVince · Post by **DaVince** » Wed Jul 29, 2009 6:04 pm

Why exactly do you need to install the Windows version of OpenOffice.org? There's a Linux version available (or are you "dogfooding" OOo for Wine?).

OpenOffice 3.1.0 is still a 3.x version, so it's unlikely that that dependency has changed (in the Linux version, of course).

tparker · Post by **tparker** » Wed Jul 29, 2009 6:17 pm

DaVince wrote:

Why exactly do you need to install the Windows version of OpenOffice.org? There's a Linux version available

I have been using the linux version, but I need to save files in .rtf
format to send to people that are using MS Office (I was asked to use
.rtf instead of .doc, I'm not sure why bit maybe a version issue).

Open Office is making a mess of the file when saving it .rtf, the
formatting is hosed. I was hoping maybe the windows version through wine
would not do that.

OpenOffice 3.1.0 is still a 3.x version, so it's unlikely that that dependency has changed

Thank you.

DaVince · Post by **DaVince** » Wed Jul 29, 2009 6:22 pm

In the end it's simple saving to a file, so I don't think the Windows version would save it correctly. Try installing Abiword, opening the document in there and exporting it to RTF in Abiword? (Abiword is tiny enough to exist alongside OOo, as well as open simpler documents really quickly.)

jorl17 · Post by **jorl17** » Wed Jul 29, 2009 6:26 pm

DaVince wrote:In the end it's simple saving to a file, so I don't think the Windows version would save it correctly. Try installing Abiword, opening the document in there and exporting it to RTF in Abiword? (Abiword is tiny enough to exist alongside OOo, as well as open simpler documents really quickly.)

If OOfice messes up something (such as not using a text/binary flag), then different library implementations which it relies on could hit it. For instance, if one writes a binary file without setting the ios::binary flag, different outcomes may happen, since nothing in the specification dictates that, without that flag, the stream must remain unchanged.

That said, I also don't think that moving OOffice into wine would help, but I think I should make it clear that it is possible to screw up something and have it produce different outputs on different platforms.

Cheers,

Jorl17

FatButtLarry · Post by **FatButtLarry** » Thu Jul 30, 2009 10:15 pm

This is a bit off-topic, but DaVince asked why one would need OOo in wine
and I wanted to add to the discussion...

An example I'm familiar with....

OOo on wine *could* be needed when running programs such as Lotus Notes
(legacy versions) or a similar app because of file associations in the
Windows environment not coming through to Linux. (i.e. Click an Attachment
in Notes, what opens it?)

Of course, IBM now makes native verisons of Lotus Notes in RPM and DEB
format, but most companies are still stuck on legacy versions.

Details:

http://www.pcurtis.com/ubuntu.htm#winenative

OP, good luck on the RTF stuff.

-Tres

On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 7:26 PM, jorl17 <[email protected]> wrote:

DaVince wrote:
In the end it's simple saving to a file, so I don't think the Windows
version would save it correctly. Try installing Abiword, opening the
document in there and exporting it to RTF in Abiword? (Abiword is tiny
enough to exist alongside OOo, as well as open simpler documents really
quickly.)

If OOfice messes up something (such as not using a text/binary flag), then
different library implementations which it relies on could hit it. For
instance, if one writes a binary file without setting the ios::binary flag,
different outcomes may happen, since nothing in the specification dictates
that, without that flag, the stream must remain unchanged.

That said, I also don't think that moving OOffice into wine would help, but
I think I should make it clear that it is possible to screw up something and
have it produce different outputs on different platforms.

Cheers,

Jorl17

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