The big problem is that several courts require documents to be submitted in Word Perfect format, and last I checked OpenOffice was not even inporting WP, let alone saving a workable output.
Look at the beta for openoffice 2.0, it now handles WordPerfect. Scroll about half of the way down this page:
http://www.openoffice.org/dev_docs/features/2.0/index.html
-Jared
On Wed, April 13, 2005 11:16 am, Jared said:
The big problem is that several courts require documents to be submitted in Word Perfect format, and last I checked OpenOffice was not even inporting WP, let alone saving a workable output.
Look at the beta for openoffice 2.0, it now handles WordPerfect. Scroll about half of the way down this page:
It's my understanding that oo2 no longer runs on Linux, but requires Java instead.
On Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 01:07:43PM -0500, Jonathan Hutchins wrote:
It's my understanding that oo2 no longer runs on Linux, but requires Java instead.
http://software.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=05/03/22/204244
It looks like more of OpenOffice.org 2 is dependent on Java, but you can use parts of it without. OO.org 1 used Java for:
* Accessibility tools, such as the Gnopernicus Screen Reader and Magnifier and the GNOME On-Screen Keyboard * The Report Autopilot * JDBC driver support for Java-based databases * XSLT filters * BeanShell, the Netbeans scripting language, and the Java UNO bridge * Export filters to the Aportis.doc (.pdb) format for the Palm or Pocket Word (.psw) format for the Pocket PC
And now OO.org 2 adds the following which require Java:
* Base, the new Access-like database application * The media player, which adds movie and sound clips to documents * Mail merges to e-mail, which also require Java Mail * All document wizards in Writer
So you can do things like type and print, but getting into more complex features would require a JRE. The article goes on to say that some distros use a free JRE with gcj, and others don't include OO.org at all (Slackware).
Jeremy
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