Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 8483
plugin would help Web users in businesses
Last modified: 2013-02-07 22:37:48 UTC
You should plan a Mozilla plugin to view the different office components in the browser. This way it is easier to use the Open Office file format for exchange in an office environment where the MS Windows platform is dominant. Another advantage having a browser plugin would be that users still only having an old modem connection could at least be able to read documents in the Open Office format without having to download the entire office product. Just my thoughts. Thanks for a good product this far.
While a plugin is probably a good idea, I am sure the size of the plugin and its dependencies would still be quite large without editing ability. Look at Acrobat Reader for example. It does not have editing ability, but it is still quite large and it doesn't even include spreadsheets, presentations, and non-text applications.
I am confirming that a plugin could be useful.
What would be useful in the meantime is to create and/or document a way of getting OpenOffice Writer, Calc and Impress to work with Plugger for the display of both MS and OO documents.
I've gotten this far: adding the following string to my pluggerrc-4.0 file, starting up an openoffice window and then browsing to a word doc embeds the newly opened window into my browser window ---8<------- application/x-msword: doc, dot: Microsoft Word Document application/msword: doc, dot: Microsoft Word Document nokill exits swallow(VCLSalFrame) fill: swriter "$file" ---8<------- There are several problems though, that maybe someone can help with 1. You have to have openoffice running before browsing to the word document or else plugger will not capture the window 2. Browsing away from the document crashes openoffice. If you change "nokill" to "repeat" or otherwise remove "nokill", plugger would instead close your entire openoffice application once you browse away from the document, so I'm not sure which one is worse :( 3. If you have an embedded page up and switch focus to a different openoffice document that isn't embedded, plugger grabs it and embeds it into the document. I think that a lot of those issues can be fixed if a "plugin" command line option was available with openoffice that would start it up with a different WM_CLASS name so that plugger can properly identify it and not confuse it with other openoffice windows.
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TM->BH: This one is a wish for a feature, so please have a look. Thanks !
*** Issue 54343 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
A browser plugin for Firefox and Internet Explorer should be created to enable the viewing of OASIS Open Document files (.odt, .ods, .odp). If a browser plugin is problematic then my second choice would be for a standalone unified viewer for the OASIS formats. The plugin nor the standalone viewer should require the installation of OpenOffice.org, but there should be a link to the OpenOffice.org web site/download page.
To grep the issues easier via "requirements" I put the issues currently lying on my owner to the owner "requirements".