Quicklinks: Braille, OOo Draw workaround for PDF, and a convert discusses why he uses OOo

On September 12, 2010, in General, Miscellaneous, Online, OpenOffice.org, by stephanie
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I don’t usually post as many links posts within a week, however these are too good to miss! Enjoy!

  • odt2Braille – The release of odt2braille by the Belgian university Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, has brought the ability to work with Braille to OpenOffice.org. The extension adds a “Braille” menu to OpenOffice.org’s Writer which allows users to translate documents into Braille formats such as .brf or .pef or send the content to Braille printers for embossing.
  • A workaround for OpenOffice.org Draw selection export to PDF – In the current version of OpenOffice.org 3.2, there is still a problem with selection export to PDF in Draw program — the result pdfs always have page dimension of the drawing (A4 or letter) as its paper size (fig. 1). For printing, this is fine, but annoying if you want, for example, include the graphic in a LaTeX document. Phan’s blog has a workaround.
  • OpenOffice.org Suite: A Convert Explains His Conversion – Larry Mike Garmon has switched to OOo and this post catalogues his reasons why!
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5 Links to enhance your OpenOffice.org Experience

On July 19, 2010, in Extensions, Useful Tools, by stephanie
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The following links should be useful if you wish to extend the functionality of your OpenOffice install.

  • To install OO.o 3.2.1 version under Ubuntu, Muktware has these instructions…  Read More »
  • Solveig Haugland comes to the rescue with OpenOffice.org clipart – It’s nice to be able to just pull clip art from within the program. Some users find it difficult to navigate a file system, which is what you need to do if you’re using Insert > Picture > From File. And, frankly, dragging from a nice pane of graphics is easier. Read More »
  • There are proofreading tools / grammar checkers for OpenOffice.org. A few that you may want to look at include these suggestions from Raphael Mudge. Read More »
  • Adding fonts to OpenOffice is done by adding them to your operating system. This how-to looks at adding fonts to Windows and Mac, which will become available in your OpenOffice installation when you restart the application. Read More »
  • Adding MySQL to OpenOffice Base is easy using the MySQL Connector Extension for OpenOffice. Read More »

Have a great Monday!

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Open Office 2.3 Available for Download

On October 3, 2007, in OpenOffice.org, by stephanie
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I can”t say it better than the Open Office team, so:

Introducing new functionality with OpenOffice.org 2.3!
OpenOffice.org 2.3 is available for download now! It includes several new features in addition to the usual improvements to stability, performance, Microsoft Office compatibility and Accessibility. Some of the new and exciting features are available as free extensions which increase OpenOffice.org functionality.

OpenOffice ExtensionsThe use of extensions to increase the flexibility of OpenOffice continues the theme of extension and plugin use that is utilised by a number of open source programs, including Firefox and Thunderbird.

Visit the OpenOffice Extension Repository to download and install extra functionality in OpenOffice. I”m particularly interested in the OpenOffice.org2GoogleDocs extension – I”ll try it out and let you know!

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