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I'm trying to create an Open Office spreadsheet programmatically but for some reason simply compressing a folder with all the necessary files makes Open Office flag the file as corrupted. How did I get to this? I started by creating a normal spreadsheet in Open Office with some values in it. After saving I change the extension to .zip and make a copy of the folder. I then compress the second folder using command line zip and change the file extension to .ods. When trying to open the resulting file I get an error from Open Office saying the file is corrupt. Does Open Office use a special

I want to create basically an update query on Open Office Base (the same way with Ms ACCESS). Jim K Base does not typically use update queries (but see below). Instead, the easiest way to do an update command is to go to Tools -> SQL. Enter something similar to the following, then press Execute : UPDATE "Table1" SET "Value" = 'BBB' WHERE ID = 0 The other way is to run the command with a macro. Here is an example using Basic: Sub UpdateSQL REM Run an SQL command on a table in LibreOffice Base Context = CreateUnoService("com.sun.star.sdb.DatabaseContext") databaseURLOrRegisteredName = "file:///C

My OS is Windows XP, and I'm using IIS 5.1 and PHP 5.2.9. I'm trying to call a PHP script from my PHP page in order to convert an RTF doc to a PDF, using OpenOffice. The script works just fine when I call it directly from the command line, but I'm not having any success getting the very same script to work when launched from my PHP web page. When I call the script from my PHP page, the page hangs, eventually showing an error, and I've noted that I can see in the Task Manager where the soffice.bin and soffice.exe processes are running under my IIS user name. This is the error: Fatal error:

In my Delphi application I am currently do Search&Replace programmatically for doc and docx word documents using office ole automation. Does anyone has the code to do the same (for doc, docs, odt) in OpenOffice? I also asked a related question on saving to pdf . You should take a focus on XReplaceable interface. Here is the example. Please note, that there's no error handling. I've tested it with LibreOffice writer and it works fine for me. uses ComObj; procedure OpenOfficeReplace(const AFileURL: string; ASearch: string; const AReplace: string); var StarOffice: Variant; StarDesktop: Variant;

I have a ASP.NET 2.0 web application that should upload a ppt file and then extract its slides to images. For that I have imported office.dll and Microsoft.Office.Interop.PowerPoint.dll assemblies and wrote the following code public static int ExtractImages(string ppt, string targetPath, int width, int height) { var pptApplication = new ApplicationClass(); var pptPresentation = pptApplication.Presentations.Open(ppt, MsoTriState.msoTrue, MsoTriState.msoFalse, MsoTriState.msoFalse); var slides = new List<string>(); for (var i = 1; i <= pptPresentation.Slides.Count; i++) { var target = string

I've heard discussion about how OpenOffice (ODF) files are compressed zip files of XML and other data. So making a tiny change to the file can potentially totally change the data, so delta compression doesn't work well in version control systems. I've done basic testing on an OpenOffice file, unzipping it and then rezipping it with zero compression. I used the Linux zip utility for my testing. OpenOffice will still happily open it. So I'm wondering if it's worth developing a small utility to run on ODF files each time just before I commit to version control. Any thoughts on this idea? Possible

How can I add spaces between every character or symbol within a UTF-8 document? E.g. 123hello! becomes 1 2 3 h e l l o ! . I have BASH , OpenOffice.org , and gedit , if any of those can do that. I don't care if it sometimes leaves extra spaces in places (e.g. 2 or 3 spaces in a single place is no problem). sed(1) can do this: $ sed -e 's/\(.\)/\1 /g' < /etc/passwd r o o t : x : 0 : 0 : r o o t : / r o o t : / b i n / b a s h d a e m o n : x : 1 : 1 : d a e m o n : / u s r / s b i n : / b i n / s h It works well on e.g. UTF-8 encoded Japanese content: $ file japanese japanese: UTF-8 Unicode