Hi Christian, Thank you very much for those tips and explanations . The thing of running openoffice without x-windows is definitely a great news and I somehow knew that it had to be a way to address this issue.
The fact that I am asking here is because I asked in odftoolkit.org's forum firstly and I was said: "the image format of the replacement files is not standardized format, where no other solution to transform these meta files exist as to use OOo at the moment. Nevertheless it would be nice to transform them in the future to JPEG. But it is not in the close future that we will work on this." The encouraged me to ask in here to find out another solution ( http://odftoolkit.org/projects/odftoolkit/forums/ODFDOM/topics/37-ODFtoolkit-question? ). Right now I will use a macro to zip out charts and drawings but I will absolutely be alert to odftoolkit can release. Thank you everyone again. Daniel. On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 3:34 PM, Christian Lippka - Sun Microsystems GmbH - Hamburg <[email protected]> wrote: > Just two small remarks.... > > OpenOffice.org runs without x-windows, search for "headless" mode. > > jpg/png do not scale well and until recently there just was no open vector > format so > OOo sticked with starview metafile which is an extension to the long > outdated windows > metafile. The replacement will be svg but this would still not solve your > problems as > Internet Explorer still does not support svg. > > You should monitor the odftoolkit.org project, maybe a java based starview > metafile > renderer will pop up there in the not so distant future... > > Regards, > Christian > > Daniel Garcia wrote: > >> Hi ingrid, >> >> The most difficult one yet :). I thought about that but the server is a >> debian installation with no x-windows. This computer will be serving web >> pages on live so I am scared of security wholes that a x-windows system >> might cause. >> >> Even so, the application would depend on so many third parties. What >> happens if the x-windows crashes? The server is not at the same place as >> the >> clients. >> >> Anyway, the more and more I am realizing that is not going to be possible >> to do that at the server side so I will likely need a macro able to be run >> in client's openoffice instance able to convert charts and drawing to >> jpg/png or whatever format that is treatable. >> >> What I do not understand is, Why OpenOffice do not supply those as >> jpg/png >> images since this process is already implemented because when you save the >> openoffice file as a html file, you can get those objects as png images. >> Instead, you get a startview metafile for charts and nothing for >> drawing... >> weird. It might be because of opendocument standard's premises. >> >> Thanks again, >> >> Daniel. >> >> On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 11:02 AM, Ingrid Halama <[email protected] >> >wrote: >> >> >> > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > >
