M. Fioretti wrote:
On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 12:14:59 PM -0800, hans nobody ([email protected]) wrote:
Hi all,
At work (where we unfortunately have to use MS Office), I have often
the need to create a presentation or text-document made up by a
couple of fotos with comments, to explain or document mechanical
engineering problems.
...
I'm wondering, if there is a plug-in/add-on or similar available for
Open Office that would ease my work. Such a tool would save me (and
for sure, many other office workers) a lot of time.
Hans,
in case you still have that need, you can surely do that kind of stuff
with shell and Perl scripts: just look at the "What's next" section of
http://freesoftware.zona-m.net/why-and-how-opendocument-format-can-save-you-lot-time
If you can follow that approach, you don't even have to _have_
OpenOffice installed, except, probably, to run it at the end of the
process, to convert the OpenDocument files to MS Office formats.
The easyness with which everybody can do this kind of things with
OpenDocument is, in and by itself, enough of a reason to abandon MS
Office formats for good, in favor of OpenDocument
As you say, it's not that hard to do the coding. I just looked at
http://ooolib.sourceforge.net. Unfortunately this project looks
/extremely/ out of date, generating .sx* files, and is hardly a
recommended starting point. But if the OP still has a desperate need, it
might be worth a look. I don't suppose anyone has a more up-to-date
version of this???
FWIW I have web page for automatic generation of service sheets for
church. It generates a fully formatted OOo document from an original
example (which defines the styles, etc) which has its xml modified by a
perl script as appropriate. It's not exactly hard to do, although I
admit my code is grubby rather than elegant :-). Subsequently, OOo
macros allow optional pdf (or .doc) conversion (that's harder :-{ ) If
the OP is still interested, I could supply example scripts for that and
a certificate generator (used by my wife for her music pupils).
(When I compare the ease of doing that with earlier attempts to generate
rtf files, there's really no comparison. +1 to MF's closing paragraph.)
--
Mike Scott
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