Re: LibreOffice Headless
On Sun, 2013-01-27 at 12:17 -0600, Gerald Waugh wrote: Hello, Anyone running LibreOffice on a Server? Appreciate ideas on how to implement some of the MS office features on a Web Server It's a little vague but we use unoconv from our very own Dag Wieers to generate PDFs from a web form and an openoffice file. (Thanks Dag, if you're reading this.) It's worth kicking off libreoffice in server mode and leaving it lying around to connect to. John
LibreOffice Headless
On Sun, Jan 27, 2013 at 2:29 PM, Larry Linder larry.lin...@micro-controls.com wrote: On Sunday 27 January 2013 1:17 pm, Gerald Waugh wrote: Hello, Anyone running LibreOffice on a Server? Appreciate ideas on how to implement some of the MS office features on a Web Server TIA We have been running LibreOffice3.5 for a while and recently upgraded systems to LibreOffice3.6 to enable us to read and write more M$ formats. See previous posts about adding export OOO_FORCE_DESKTOP=none to .bashrc or /etc/bashrc if you have a number of users on a server. Off line I can give you an idea what kind of stuff we have hooked together. The best location for that is /etc/profile.d/libreoffice.sh, if you're going to tweak system settings for all users. This keeps you from editing a core system file and potentially and accidentally breaking it for *everyone*.
Re: LibreOffice Headless
On 01/28/2013 03:17 AM, Gerald Waugh wrote: Hello, Anyone running LibreOffice on a Server? Appreciate ideas on how to implement some of the MS office features on a Web Server TIA No idea what features you are looking to implement, but if the goal is to have your web server generate ODF files natively... I've found it a lot easier to generate ODFs directly from templates rather than go through LibreOffice. I've written tools to do this for me from within Django and Snap but haven't gone to the trouble to generalize (or clean up) the solution. ODF turns out to be wonderfully easy to generate, parse, manipulate, etc. and is now the only XML format that doesn't make me gag. This might not be at all the direction you are trying to head in, but if it is a generate docs/spreadsheets/charts/etc from source data type problem don't write off the idea of generating your own from an extension to your web framework.
Re: LibreOffice Headless
On Tue, 29 Jan 2013, zxq9 wrote: On 01/28/2013 03:17 AM, Gerald Waugh wrote: Hello, Anyone running LibreOffice on a Server? Appreciate ideas on how to implement some of the MS office features on a Web Server TIA No idea what features you are looking to implement, but if the goal is to have your web server generate ODF files natively... I've found it a lot easier to generate ODFs directly from templates rather than go through LibreOffice. I've written tools to do this for me from within Django and Snap but haven't gone to the trouble to generalize (or clean up) the solution. ODF turns out to be wonderfully easy to generate, parse, manipulate, etc. and is now the only XML format that doesn't make me gag. This might not be at all the direction you are trying to head in, but if it is a generate docs/spreadsheets/charts/etc from source data type problem don't write off the idea of generating your own from an extension to your web framework. If you're looking into generating ODF output from a structured language (for documentation/publishing purposes) take a look at: http://github.com/dagwieers/asciidoc-odf Unfortunately, Github broke native asciidoc support for the README, so you better read that from: https://github.com/dagwieers/asciidoc-odf/blob/master/README.asciidoc Kind regards, -- -- dag wieers, d...@wieers.com, http://dag.wieers.com/ -- dagit linux solutions, i...@dagit.net, http://dagit.net/ [Any errors in spelling, tact or fact are transmission errors]
Re: LibreOffice Headless
On Monday 28 January 2013 9:08 am, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: On Sun, Jan 27, 2013 at 2:29 PM, Larry Linder larry.lin...@micro-controls.com wrote: On Sunday 27 January 2013 1:17 pm, Gerald Waugh wrote: Hello, Anyone running LibreOffice on a Server? Appreciate ideas on how to implement some of the MS office features on a Web Server TIA We have been running LibreOffice3.5 for a while and recently upgraded systems to LibreOffice3.6 to enable us to read and write more M$ formats. See previous posts about adding export OOO_FORCE_DESKTOP=none to .bashrc or /etc/bashrc if you have a number of users on a server. Off line I can give you an idea what kind of stuff we have hooked together. The best location for that is /etc/profile.d/libreoffice.sh, if you're going to tweak system settings for all users. This keeps you from editing a core system file and potentially and accidentally breaking it for *everyone*. Suggestion is appreciated and implemented - Done. Thank You All Larry Linder
Re: LibreOffice Headless
On 01/28/2013 10:43 AM, Dag Wieers wrote: On Tue, 29 Jan 2013, zxq9 wrote: On 01/28/2013 03:17 AM, Gerald Waugh wrote: Hello, Anyone running LibreOffice on a Server? Appreciate ideas on how to implement some of the MS office features on a Web Server TIA No idea what features you are looking to implement, but if the goal is to have your web server generate ODF files natively... I've found it a lot easier to generate ODFs directly from templates rather than go through LibreOffice. I've written tools to do this for me from within Django and Snap but haven't gone to the trouble to generalize (or clean up) the solution. ODF turns out to be wonderfully easy to generate, parse, manipulate, etc. and is now the only XML format that doesn't make me gag. This might not be at all the direction you are trying to head in, but if it is a generate docs/spreadsheets/charts/etc from source data type problem don't write off the idea of generating your own from an extension to your web framework. If you're looking into generating ODF output from a structured language (for documentation/publishing purposes) take a look at: http://github.com/dagwieers/asciidoc-odf Unfortunately, Github broke native asciidoc support for the README, so you better read that from: https://github.com/dagwieers/asciidoc-odf/blob/master/README.asciidoc Kind regards, thanks to all for the suggestions will post back later on the results. -- Gerald
Re: LibreOffice Headless
Am 28.01.2013 17:43, schrieb Dag Wieers: On Tue, 29 Jan 2013, zxq9 wrote: On 01/28/2013 03:17 AM, Gerald Waugh wrote: Hello, Anyone running LibreOffice on a Server? Appreciate ideas on how to implement some of the MS office features on a Web Server [...] I've found it a lot easier to generate ODFs directly from templates rather than go through LibreOffice. [...] This might not be at all the direction you are trying to head in, but if it is a generate docs/spreadsheets/charts/etc from source data type problem don't write off the idea of generating your own from an extension to your web framework. If you're looking into generating ODF output from a structured language (for documentation/publishing purposes) take a look at: [...] You might also be interested in these projects: http://opendocumentfellowship.com/development/projects/odftools https://pypi.python.org/pypi/odfpy Regards, Florian Philipp signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
LibreOffice Headless
Hello, Anyone running LibreOffice on a Server? Appreciate ideas on how to implement some of the MS office features on a Web Server TIA -- Gerald
Re: LibreOffice Headless
On Sunday 27 January 2013 1:17 pm, Gerald Waugh wrote: Hello, Anyone running LibreOffice on a Server? Appreciate ideas on how to implement some of the MS office features on a Web Server TIA We have been running LibreOffice3.5 for a while and recently upgraded systems to LibreOffice3.6 to enable us to read and write more M$ formats. See previous posts about adding export OOO_FORCE_DESKTOP=none to .bashrc or /etc/bashrc if you have a number of users on a server. Off line I can give you an idea what kind of stuff we have hooked together. In the process of updating SL5.6 to SL 5.8 for some reason in the process KDE 3 was updated to KDE 4 on one system and not on some others. It may be due to what was set up on that box. Last summer we made the decision we didn't care for SL 6 and decided to update our systems to SL 5.8. Certain people think that if you complain or offer a solution to a problem you are OFF TOPIC and should shut up. My opinion is that a lot of people who run Linux are mavericks and load and run what is best for them. We just make up dates several times a year to the keep noise to a minimum. We still have an OS/2 system running in the building to do a special job. It was decided that we need to use it every so often and it was not worth the cost to move applications to SL. Since we are a commercial user - we don't care about a lot of stuff but Linux SL fills our needs and then some. One of its great features is that is is reliable and well supported by the end users. We run a small factory using SL and VMware to run M$ applications. Other than the small hick up we ran into over the weekend we are happy as a clam. Off topic At some point in time the engineering community may need to make a fork in the road to support engineering needs that is not driven by the general entertainment establishment. That is why we opted to start using SL 4. a few years ago. What we run on SL besides a factory is a couple of control simulations for a turbine engine its control, a simulation of a wind driven vortex (like a tornado), and a number of tools to convert data from Time Domain to Frequency Domain for analysis of data. FF transform modified to run for an extended time period and track the trend of the data that can have a Gaussian distribution. A big help is the Numerical Recipes in C and C for engineers. Covers a lot of basic stuff and is very accurate. If you buy the books and get the optional source code for examples it saves a boat load of time. Larry Linder
