Openoffice and Abiword

[sleepie]

I stopped using Microsoft Office sometime ago and have started using Open Office (ODF) and have found out that Abiword doesn't support the ODF format. Is there a way of installing Open Office?

sleepie

[bafni]

Try saving the files as RTF, recognised by just about all word processors

[andii]

I had been hoping that it would be Openoffice.org rather than Abiword. I have a lot of files from my other computers in odt format and would rather not have to convert them to .rtf or even (yuck) .doc. I need to be able simply to pop them on a usb-stick and use them on the onet. So what I could do with knowing is whether it is possible to get AbiWord to read and write odt or whether it is possible to install openoffice.org on the onet+? Anyone got any intelligence on either of those options?

It'd be good also to be able to have a go at odp's (presentation slides) ...?

[genericname1]

i believe it should be possible but openoffice is a bit of a beast even on my laptop, imagine it would be very very slow on the onet

[rmotters]

IMHO, OpenOffice is bloatware.

I remove it and loaded Abiword and Gnumeric ages ago on my Fedora desktop.

I found issues with the spreadsheet in OpenOffice and the fact that it does not handle filters on more then one sheet at a time.

I use filters a lot at my work and could not live without them.

[bafni]

The mips & mipsel Debian AbiWord packages both contain Open Document & Open Writer plugins (as well as a shed load of others).

Couldn't get them to work on my 1T but then I'm a relative Linux newbie.

Perhaps somebody else could get them to work.

http://packages.debian.org/stable/editors/abiword-plugins

[rmotters]

It probably down to updated libraries on the debian install.

After getting the Emulator working. I am currently building a cross-compiling environment to start looking at fulfilling my wish list, which include this. Not too sure on the time-scale, at the moment. Depends on work.