On Aug 30, 2010, at 4:58 PM, James Knott wrote: > Tanstaafl wrote: >>> > This may help you do that: >>> > > http://www.openoffice.org/docs/setup_guide/mu_install.html >>> >> Ummm... this is referencing Openoffice.org 1.0... >> >> I remember reading about this kind of install way back when, but I never >> attempted it. >> >> Will this still work for OOo 3.x?? >> > I have no idea. The way to find out is to try it. You should be able to do > so with a couple of computers.
For those still following this, I finally had time to go over possibilities. (After I asked, I got swamped!) This isn't really what I'm looking for. What I want to do is rather unusual. I want to put an embedded system in someone's office. Embedded because I don't want them trying to log on or mess with it in any way. And the idea is that on that system I'd like to have OOo so when someone is using Windows or OS X or Linux, they could somehow run OOo on the embedded system, yet have the display show on THEIR computer. My main reasoning for this is that the system prints out data that will be formatted and I still notice the issue that we can format documents on one computer, then use them on another and find out the fonts don't quite match so a 1 page document on one computer has one page and one line on the next page on the other computer. My goal is to make it so someone in the office can write a document from the embedded system and later a Java program on that computer will be printing out copies of that with a mailmerge. That way printing can be started from any computer, but it all happens on that one system so there's no formatting issues. I don't think that's possible, unless I use VNC or go to a kiosk type setup on Linux or something like that, and then they'll have to have a keyboard, monitor, and mouse for my system in their office. I was hoping for a longshot, maybe because of the nature of OpenOffice and Java, that there was some type of framework where a Java applet in a browser could run OOo from the host system in some way. Like I said, that idea is a longshot. Hal --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
