split OpenOffice extension

[alu]

is it possible to split the openoffice extension in order to have a separate writer, a separate xcalc, and so on?; i come up to this idea remembering dsl which, as i believe, did offer this opportunity in order to save ram usage.

[Juanito]

Does it make a big difference if you use the tczl version?

[alu]

with the oo2.tclz extension, i get 115.6 MB loaded, while i am using writer only; if i had to load writer only, i would come up with around 65 MB, i think; it would make a big difference for me

[junan]

why not try abiword ?
and gnumeric for spreadsheet.

[alu]

i'd like to use it (abiword), but even if i am not an experimented user of abiword, it has not some functionalities that i am used to use with openoffice; f.ex. quotation marks and apostrophes are not supported in several languages, and i am writing in almost 4 languages for which i need 4 different quotation marks' and apostrophes' styles without using the insert menu function or the copy/paste one at each time. Otherwise, my experience with abiword was not so good (maybe it's me) as f.ex. when i have to import a doc document with graphics and so on; it takes a long time to load, and it forces me to reformate the document in most of the cases (footnotes messed up each time, and to reformate footnotes with abiword is really a pain). Last but not least: it will be a detail for you folks, but the (smooth or non-smooth) scrolling functionality in abiword is really something that sucks. That's why i got back to openoffice writer which deserve my purposes without too much time lost. So spliting the oo2.tczl extension would enable me to reduce memory storage without any loss of productivity.

[bmarkus]

BTW OO 2.3 is rather old now, current version is 3.1.0

[alu]

yes, but i think that oo3.1 would be much difficult to split (a guess from me there), and frankly, oo2.3 works very well; it has in my view only one big issue which is it can not read docx files; about that last point, i would agree with you, and would also say that we need a oo3.1 extension; but that's already too much requests within one post. 

[bmarkus]

There are some more changes in 3.x but not so significant for the every day use.

For .docx files you can use a 3rd party tool, odf-converter-integrator for example:

http://katana.oooninja.com/w/odf-converter-integrator

[alu]

mmmhh... do i have to compile it, or is it a shorter way to get that odf-converter-integrator working; thanks anyway Bella for the tip, even if i remain sceptical with 'translations' apps. you know, if tex would offer better ways to deal with doc and other common sense formats, i would have been stuck at that. simplicity, no brain washing, but your know the story for sure

[bmarkus]

I'm not using it, but guess it must be compiled and converted to a tce/tcz extension.

[Juanito]

I've started to look at openoffice-3.1 - it seems to start compiling OK (after a couple of hacks), but I had to <ctrl-c> out as 2GB ram is (obviously) not enough.

Once I line up some hd space to compile, I'll try to compile the whole thing and test it works before trying to split the components.

[curaga]

People around have recommended Go-office as the "better" OO.o fork currently. Maybe starting from it would be better? (go-oo.org)

[bmarkus]

Looks good at first glance. Lets see it.

[bigpcman]

I've started to look at openoffice-3.1 - it seems to start compiling OK (after a couple of hacks), but I had to <ctrl-c> out as 2GB ram is (obviously) not enough.

Once I line up some hd space to compile, I'll try to compile the whole thing and test it works before trying to split the components.

I agree go-office looks like a better starting point.

[Juanito]

Hmm...

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making .dpslo
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- start unit test on library ../unxlngi6.pro/lib/libbasegfx_tests.so
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testshl2 -sf /tmp/mkjJKbjj -forward ../unxlngi6.pro/bin/ ../unxlngi6.pro/lib/libbasegfx_tests.so
terminate called after throwing an instance of 'CppUnit::StubException'
dmake:  Error code 134, while making '../unxlngi6.pro/misc/unittest_succeeded'

ERROR: Error 65280 occurred while making /mnt/sdb1/usr/src/OOO310_m11/basegfx/test
rmdir /tmp/12036
dmake:  Error code 1, while making 'build_instsetoo_native'
Command exited with non-zero status 255
real    33m 43.52s

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