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From: "M. Fioretti" on 1 Jun 2010 04:18
On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 12:14:59 PM -0800, hans nobody (hans01122(a)yahoo.de) wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> At work (where we unfortunately have to use MS Office), I have often
> the need to create a presentation or text-document made up by a
> couple of fotos with comments, to explain or document mechanical
> engineering problems.
> ...
> I'm wondering, if there is a plug-in/add-on or similar available for
> Open Office that would ease my work. Such a tool would save me (and
> for sure, many other office workers) a lot of time.

Hans,

in case you still have that need, you can surely do that kind of stuff
with shell and Perl scripts: just look at the "What's next" section of
http://freesoftware.zona-m.net/why-and-how-opendocument-format-can-save-you-lot-time

If you can follow that approach, you don't even have to _have_
OpenOffice installed, except, probably, to run it at the end of the
process, to convert the OpenDocument files to MS Office formats.

The easyness with which everybody can do this kind of things with
OpenDocument is, in and by itself, enough of a reason to abandon MS
Office formats for good, in favor of OpenDocument

HTH,
Marco

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From: "M. Fioretti" on 1 Jun 2010 05:21
On Tue, Jun 01, 2010 10:03:17 AM +0100, Mike Scott (mike(a)scottsonline.org.uk) wrote:

> >in case you still have that need, you can surely do that kind of
> >stuff with shell and Perl scripts: just look at the "What's next"
> >section of
> >http://freesoftware.zona-m.net/why-and-how-opendocument-format-can-save-you-lot-time

> >If you can follow that approach, you don't even have to _have_
> >OpenOffice installed, except, probably, to run it at the end of the
> >process, to convert the OpenDocument files to MS Office formats.
> ....

Mike,
first a general comment:

> As you say, it's not that hard to do the coding. I just looked at
> http://ooolib.sourceforge.net.

there is a great (if only psychological) difference between something
like ooolib, even if it were up to date, and the scripts I'm
publishing at http://freesoftware.zona-m.net/odf-scripting. The latter
are much less elegant, but surely work wherever there is standard perl
or bash available, that is even in Windows with cygwin, without
installing anything else. When you have to use Perl modules, even on
Linux, it is very likely you'll need some manual
installation/configuration and update.

With respect to this:

> FWIW I have web page for automatic generation of service sheets for
> church... If the OP is still interested, I could supply example
> scripts for that and a certificate generator (used by my wife for
> her music pupils).

I don't know about the OP, but I'm definitely interested to see that
code online, please do it. If you don't know where to publish it
and/or it's not documented, I can help with that: just send me the
bare scripts and I'll put them at http://freesoftware.zona-m.net/ with
an explanation on how to use it.

Obviously everything would be under open licenses as everything else
on that website, and I'll giving full credit to you as the author! But
again, if you want to publish anywhere else, that's just as fine, as
long as we get to see the code :-)

Ciao,
Marco

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