tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8544609315733972726.post3128860430321185690..comments2008-04-05T13:27:56.260-06:00Andrew Zhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10108637160465346326noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8544609315733972726.post-17459527806742824742008-04-05T13:27:00.000-06:002008-04-05T13:27:00.000-06:00slipsticking: Based on the release date of OpenSUSE 10.3, you may have an old version of odf-converter (now at 1.1.7), which has come a long way lately. If you reproduce the problem in the latest version, report it to http://odf-converter.sourceforge.net/Andrew Zhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10108637160465346326noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8544609315733972726.post-13257050511054562222008-04-05T11:42:00.000-06:002008-04-05T11:42:00.000-06:00I am using OpenSUSE 10.3, which (as this post suggests) comes with the odf-converter natively installed in OpenOffice. Additionally, I teach college English and require students to electronically submit their term papers. I then convert them to PDFs and upload them to the university's Blackboard server where students download them for class workshops. All that to say....<BR/><BR/>Unfortunately, the integrity of the .docx files does not always seem to be exact. On at least two student papers, translation into ODF was inaccurate. On one paper the page numbers at the top (an MLA formatting requirement) appeared on the bottom instead; on another paper, the last several paragraphs lost their font style and double-spaced formatting. Viewing the same files on a Windows XP machine running MS Office 2003 with the MS Office pack converter translated them correctly.<BR/><BR/>I have Googled high and low, but no one else seems to report this problem with Novell's odf-converter.<BR/><BR/>If you would like the original .docx student papers for conversion testing, mail me: mrrena -- at -- gmail.slipstickinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03300734490313630686noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8544609315733972726.post-26127328950471314412008-02-13T11:20:00.000-07:002008-02-13T11:20:00.000-07:00The Ubuntu and Novell/SUSE editions of OOo have some <B>extra code</B> to allow the use of an out-of-process (in other words, external) converter. The OdfConverter is really a command line program with a thin interface to OpenOffice.org. That could explain why it seems so slow to me.<BR/><BR/>The OdfConverter is Novell's <B>temporary solution</B> until OOo 3.0 is released. It would have been nice if upstream included the code, but, "Oh, well." I am glad upstream work is focusing on the long-term OpenXML solution called "xmlfilter."<BR/><BR/><BR/>AndrewAndrew Zhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10108637160465346326noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8544609315733972726.post-91627972642627752972008-02-13T10:53:00.000-07:002008-02-13T10:53:00.000-07:00Sorry, I meant: "how come is works with the Ubuntu version and not the upstream version?"Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8544609315733972726.post-54829890229967178992008-02-13T10:51:00.000-07:002008-02-13T10:51:00.000-07:00This is very interesting news. I just tried to install the converter in my Ubuntu OOo, and it actually seems to work!<BR/><BR/>How come it works with the OOo version and not with the upstream version? What is the difference between the version?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com