topic What is the role of OpenOffice withing Alfresco? in Alfresco Archive

What is the role of OpenOffice withing Alfresco?

renovatio — Thu, 15 May 2008 19:41:20 GMT

Hi,I was wondering what the purpose of OpenOffice is within Alfresco? Is it only used for transformation purposes or are there also other functionalities that are used?How can I know that OpenOffice is working correctly together with Alfresco? This question seems perhaps stupid, but as I do not know

Re: What is the role of OpenOffice withing Alfresco?

pmonks — Thu, 15 May 2008 22:48:20 GMT

OpenOffice is only used for transformation, and even then it isn't responsible for all transformations supported by Alfresco (ImageMagick and PDFBox are some of the other transformation "libraries" we use).

Cheers,
Peter

Re: What is the role of OpenOffice withing Alfresco?

renovatio — Fri, 16 May 2008 04:43:21 GMT

Thanks a lot for your answer.

So that means if I am able to transform a PDF to a text document for example, OpenOffice is installed and working correctly for Alfresco?

Thanks.

Cheers,

Chris

Re: What is the role of OpenOffice withing Alfresco?

pmonks — Fri, 16 May 2008 05:11:16 GMT

I believe PDF to text transformation is performed by PDFBox (which is a Java library provided along with Alfresco), so I don't think that's a good test. A better test is to transform a Microsoft Word document into PDF - that's one of the transformations that is handled by OpenOffice.

Cheers,
Peter

Re: What is the role of OpenOffice withing Alfresco?

monicas_ — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 11:06:11 GMT

Hi,

I'm interested on this topic, so I've been trying several transformation purposes in order to test OppenOffice. What I've realised is that I'm able to transform a Microsoft Word document into PDF, but it doesn't works when I try to execute any other type of transformation, such as plain text to PDF, plain text to OpenOffice, …

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

MòNiCa