Re: Docx and OpenOffice in Lenny

2008-10-21 Thread Paul Johnson
Zhan wrote: > On Wed, 22 Oct 2008 01:34:04 +0800, Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Dotan Cohen wrote: > Even users of MSO <2007 will be unable to open .docx files. > Only if they don't install a plugin. And maybe this plugin is, or will be, automatically installed by M

Re: Docx and OpenOffice in Lenny

2008-10-21 Thread Dotan Cohen
2008/10/21 Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> My solution, when possible, is to write to the body from where the >> .docx comes from and request that they resend in PDF. Even users of >> MSO <2007 will be unable to open .docx files. >> > Though doesn't the latest version of Office also capable of

Re: Docx and OpenOffice in Lenny

2008-10-21 Thread Zhan
On Wed, 22 Oct 2008 01:34:04 +0800, Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Dotan Cohen wrote: Even users of MSO <2007 will be unable to open .docx files. Only if they don't install a plugin. And maybe this plugin is, or will be, automatically installed by MS online update. And what about

Re: Docx and OpenOffice in Lenny

2008-10-21 Thread Paul Johnson
Dotan Cohen wrote: >>> Even users of MSO <2007 will be unable to open .docx files. >>> >> Only if they don't install a plugin. And maybe this plugin is, or will >> be, automatically installed by MS online update. >> >> > > And what about users who are not running as admin and don't have

Re: Docx and OpenOffice in Lenny

2008-10-21 Thread Paul Johnson
Dotan Cohen wrote: > 2008/10/20 Paul van der Vlis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> Hello, >> >> Is there a way to see docx documents in OpenOffice in Lenny? >> >> I know there is this: >> http://katana.oooninja.com/w/odf-converter-integrator >> >> But it seems not to be in Debian. Is there an alternati

Re: Docx and OpenOffice in Lenny

2008-10-21 Thread Rene Engelhard
Hi, Aniruddha wrote: > Hmm that is weird, I just checked and apparentley Lenny uses the regular > openoffice. I think it is best to email the people of go-oo and ask them I've no idea how you checked, but we use go-oo. Grüße/Regards, René -- .''`. René Engelhard -- Debian GNU/Linux Developer

Re: Docx and OpenOffice in Lenny

2008-10-20 Thread Joe
Paul van der Vlis wrote: Dotan Cohen schreef: 2008/10/20 Paul van der Vlis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Even a conversion to flat-text would be nice. Seeing how docx is XML, have you tried parsing the file with something that can read XML? Ah, I see OpenOffice.org 3 is out officially now. But there

Re: Docx and OpenOffice in Lenny

2008-10-20 Thread Goran Dobosevic
Aniruddha wrote: On Mon, 2008-10-20 at 18:01 +0200, Aniruddha wrote: On Mon, 2008-10-20 at 10:29 +0200, Paul van der Vlis wrote: Hello, Is there a way to see docx documents in OpenOffice in Lenny? Debian doesn't have Openoffice in their repo's, they use go-oo instead (s

Re: Docx and OpenOffice in Lenny

2008-10-20 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Mon,20.Oct.08, 18:11:59, Aniruddha wrote: > On Mon, 2008-10-20 at 18:01 +0200, Aniruddha wrote: > > On Mon, 2008-10-20 at 10:29 +0200, Paul van der Vlis wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > > > Is there a way to see docx documents in OpenOffice in Lenny? > > > > > > Debian doesn't have Openoffice in

Re: Docx and OpenOffice in Lenny

2008-10-20 Thread Aniruddha
On Mon, 2008-10-20 at 18:01 +0200, Aniruddha wrote: > On Mon, 2008-10-20 at 10:29 +0200, Paul van der Vlis wrote: > > Hello, > > > > Is there a way to see docx documents in OpenOffice in Lenny? > > > Debian doesn't have Openoffice in their repo's, they use go-oo instead > (see http://go-oo.org/

Re: Docx and OpenOffice in Lenny

2008-10-20 Thread Aniruddha
On Mon, 2008-10-20 at 10:29 +0200, Paul van der Vlis wrote: > Hello, > > Is there a way to see docx documents in OpenOffice in Lenny? > > I know there is this: > http://katana.oooninja.com/w/odf-converter-integrator > > But it seems not to be in Debian. Is there an alternative? > > With regards

Re: Docx and OpenOffice in Lenny

2008-10-20 Thread Philipp Pagel
Paul van der Vlis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dotan Cohen schreef: > > 2008/10/20 Paul van der Vlis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> All outgoing documents are in PDF. But customers will sent all kinds of > >> documents as input. > >> > > Ah, I see. Then, I suppose that it is MSO 2007, OOo 3.x, or nothin

Re: Docx and OpenOffice in Lenny

2008-10-20 Thread Dotan Cohen
2008/10/20 Paul van der Vlis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Many applications can do that, see: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_Open_XML > None other than OOo 3 is a full Linux office suite. >> But like I >> mentioned earlier, they are simply (ha!) XML files and should be >> parsable (I would imagi

Re: Docx and OpenOffice in Lenny

2008-10-20 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
Paul van der Vlis wrote: > Many applications can do that, see: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_Open_XM Some software there is available in Debian, for example OpenOffice.org or AbiWord. However, especially considering we are on freeze, the necessary versions may not be available in Lenny, on

Re: Docx and OpenOffice in Lenny

2008-10-20 Thread Paul van der Vlis
Dotan Cohen schreef: > 2008/10/20 Paul van der Vlis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> All outgoing documents are in PDF. But customers will sent all kinds of >> documents as input. >> > Ah, I see. Then, I suppose that it is MSO 2007, OOo 3.x, or nothing. They are sending all kinds of documents. E.g. WordPer

Re: Docx and OpenOffice in Lenny

2008-10-20 Thread Dotan Cohen
2008/10/20 Paul van der Vlis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > All outgoing documents are in PDF. But customers will sent all kinds of > documents as input. > Ah, I see. Then, I suppose that it is MSO 2007, OOo 3.x, or nothing. At least, nothing else that I know of can open docx files. But like I mentioned e

Re: Docx and OpenOffice in Lenny

2008-10-20 Thread Paul van der Vlis
Dotan Cohen schreef: > 2008/10/20 Paul van der Vlis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> Even a conversion to flat-text would be nice. >> > > Seeing how docx is XML, have you tried parsing the file with something > that can read XML? > >> Ah, I see OpenOffice.org 3 is out officially now. But there is no >> su

Re: Docx and OpenOffice in Lenny

2008-10-20 Thread Dotan Cohen
2008/10/20 Paul van der Vlis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Even a conversion to flat-text would be nice. > Seeing how docx is XML, have you tried parsing the file with something that can read XML? > Ah, I see OpenOffice.org 3 is out officially now. But there is no > support for it in Lenny and I would l

Re: Docx and OpenOffice in Lenny

2008-10-20 Thread Paul van der Vlis
Dotan Cohen schreef: > 2008/10/20 Paul van der Vlis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> Hello, >> >> Is there a way to see docx documents in OpenOffice in Lenny? >> >> I know there is this: >> http://katana.oooninja.com/w/odf-converter-integrator >> >> But it seems not to be in Debian. Is there an alternative?

Re: Docx and OpenOffice in Lenny

2008-10-20 Thread Dotan Cohen
2008/10/20 Paul van der Vlis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hello, > > Is there a way to see docx documents in OpenOffice in Lenny? > > I know there is this: > http://katana.oooninja.com/w/odf-converter-integrator > > But it seems not to be in Debian. Is there an alternative? > OpenOffice 3 is your best b

Docx and OpenOffice in Lenny

2008-10-20 Thread Paul van der Vlis
Hello, Is there a way to see docx documents in OpenOffice in Lenny? I know there is this: http://katana.oooninja.com/w/odf-converter-integrator But it seems not to be in Debian. Is there an alternative? With regards, Paul van der Vlis. -- http://www.vandervlis.nl/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, ema