F8_x64: OOo 2.3 need to open M$ Office 2007 ooxml .docx - Page 2

leadgolem · #16 8th November 2007, 01:28 PM

Exactly, the whole conversion process is just handled transparently by the plugin. When the plugin portion of it is working.

I would guess the OdfConverter places the converted .odt files in a temp folder when functioning as a plugin, then when you save, you convert the modified .odt back into a .docx.

leadgolem · #17 8th November 2007, 01:30 PM

Oh, you can also convert .odt files by adding the same custom command to them.

stefan1975 · #18 8th November 2007, 01:54 PM

mmmm i am so in dubio now. I already installed f8 on my home pc and was So Ready to make the switch on my work laptop as well, but reading all this makes me wonder if it is worth the trouble, it feels like a lot of work and we do get a lot of M$ crappy documents.

leadgolem · #19 8th November 2007, 03:02 PM

It's really not that big a deal. Extract the rpm, chuck the binary in your PATH, add a custom command to 2 file types. Should take you no more then 5 minutes.

A bit irritating to have to run conversions. It's up to you if you want to mess with it.

stefan1975 · #20 9th November 2007, 05:03 PM

so, just to be sure. if I take it the way suggested in this thread .... would it work the same as other file formats in OOo, i.e. selectable in the menus of OOo or do I have to convert the docx files everytime manually and revert them afterwards? Or is there another way? I do have a x64 .deb file for ubuntu OOo but that probably wont work, right?

thanks again.
stefan.

leadgolem · #21 9th November 2007, 05:25 PM

Probably not. The problem, I think, is with the OO.o version. You would need to convert the files each time. Which is a bit of a pain if you must work with .docx files all the time.

The conversion part of that plugin works, the part that makes it a plugin does not.

stefan1975 · #22 9th November 2007, 05:41 PM

thanks golem,

i guess there is nothing to do about it then, Really too bad that this what seems like a minor thing might be the thing that forces me to revert back to Ubuntu but we indeed work exclusively with docx (at least for all new documents). My home pc is very happy with its f8 install and i did not mind .rpm very much so far. i did notice the idle load is somewhat higher then with f7 but still.

well maybe something will turn up sometime, i hope.

thanks,
stefan

stefan1975 · #23 24th March 2008, 11:20 AM

Hi,

is it at all possible to install the novell edition of OOo in fedora (being rpm based and all)? Or maybe we can switch to the Novell edition for OOo in fedora alltogether? At the office we have switched completely to M$ Office 2k7 and I would really like to stick with linux and thus be able to work with OOXML.

I read that the Novell edition is working great with OOXML docs and that ubuntu 8.04 will have OOo based on the novell edition. Is this not an idea for fedora? i mean SuSe is not my cup of tea but M$ integration is something I have longed for for a long time now.

stefan.

ahz · #24 10th April 2008, 03:14 PM

Quote:

http://download.novell.com/sendredi...rror=AkamaiHost

That one is very old. odf-converter 1.1.7 is the latest.

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Extract the rpm, chuck the binary in your PATH, add a custom command to 2 file types. Should take you no more then 5 minutes.

An easy way for Fedora is odf-converter-integrator which wraps the newest converter as a package with file associations and other glue. An alternative is to use OxygenOffice as an OOXML converter.