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When I write papers or documentation it makes think using LaTeX or OpenOffice is overkill as I usually only need some markup elements (bold, headlines, lists, ...) . I'd like to write my documents using a wiki style markup as this is very efficient. For example: = Introduction = '''HTML''' is a markup language... In the end I'd like to simply convert it to PDF. (Cross-platform was nice too.) compiler.exe -pdf input.wiki output.pdf Is there a tool (or simple tool chain) to do this job? I'd personally like to not make use of LaTeX as a transformation step. There are tools doing this job

Given a PowerPoint presentation in .ppt format, what is the best way to programmatically and using only open source software extract an image representation (in say .jpg or .png ) of each slide in the presentation? The application will run in a Linux server environment, so installing Microsoft Office or Keynote is not an option. The functionality that I want to achieve programmatically is similar to: Keynote's export functionality ( File > Export... > Pictures > JPEG ) PowerPoint's Save As JPEG functionality ( Save As > Other Formats > JPEG ) You should probably give unoconv a try. According

Has anyone come across a Git or Hg plugin for "meaningful" diffs/merging/branching of OpenOffice or Microsoft word files. I know I can 'checkin' .doc files but both Git and Hg treat them as binary blobs. I'd like to be able to do all (or at least many) of the normal revision based operations on the text of the file. And yes, I do know that I should be using Latex or converting files back-and-forth between RTF. I'm just looking for a more "native" solution since I'm trying to manage collaboration between techies and "management people". This is related to my question on Biostar here: http:/

I need to write a lot of class courses presentations to my programming class, and I constantly need to show source code (mainly C code). I don't find a easy way to: Copy my source code from my editor (kate) and Paste it formated and with source highlighted to an Open Office Presentation (OOP). What I use to do is a snapshot if the code is small, or to stop presentation and open Kate in the datashow if it is too big. In this other question some suggest to embed HTML code. So I installed QSource-Highlight that easily convert C code to HTML (also gnu source-highlight, code2html, and so on). None

I am preparing a presentation using Google Slides, though I can also work on the presentation within Open Office that will include code snippets. Is there any easy way to perform basic syntax highlighting on the code snippets with either Google Docs or Open Office Presenter? Edit: Since I believe that I can find a way to embed HTML, any tools that can perform syntax highlighting on HTML would also be welcome suggestions. An on-line syntax highlighter: http://markup.su/highlighter/ Just copy and paste into your document. EDIT: Seems the above site is temporarily down so heres an alternative:

I'm writing an add-on that opens a dialog and I need to access the currently opened text document but I don't know how get it. I'm using the OpenOffice plug-in in NetBeans and I started from an Add-on project. It created a class that gives me a XComponentContext instance but I don't know how to use it to get a OfficeDocument instance of the current document. I've been googling for some time and I can't find any example that uses an existing, opened, document. They all start from a new document or a document that is loaded first so they have an URL for it. I gave it a try based on the

I am using LibreOffice installed on my Linux box and I seem to be having a weird problem in that the conversion seems to be taking place, and there seem to be no errors, but there is no output file in the specified output directory. Here is an example of the command I am using: /opt/libreoffice3.6/program/soffice --headless --invisible --convert-to pdf /dir/file.pptx --outdir /dir And here is the result of that command: convert /dir/file.pptx -> /dir/file.pdf using impress_pdf_Export But the problem is that after running the conversion /dir/file.pdf does not exist. Do any of you have any