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I would like to use the .fodt format in LibreOffice with SVN for a documentation system.
After a fresh installation, the format doesn't appear in the "Save as.." box in version 3.4.3 on Windows 7.
Is it temporarely broken ? Do I need an extension ?
I've seen that the filter was rewritten in C++, I suppose it will be maintained ?
Marc B
Add the 'Sample XSLT' filters (setup.exe|Modify|Optional Components|XSLT
Sample Filters|
Marc
I would like to use the .fodt format in LibreOffice with SVN for a
documentation system.
After a fresh installation, the format doesn't appear in the "Save as.."
box in version 3.4.3 on Windows 7.
Is it temporarely broken ? Do I need an extension ?
I've seen that the filter was rewritten in C++, I suppose it will be
maintained ?Marc B
I checked LO 3.4.3 on Ubuntu/Pinguy 64 and under SAVE AS I have the
option for flat xml (.fodt) from Writer and (.fods) from Calc. I had to
scroll down a while. I am not sure why you did not see it in Windows.
Cool! With LO 3.4.3 on Vista I see it as "OpenDocument Text (Flat XML)
(.fodt) (*.fodt) between OpenOffice XML Text and Unified Office Format Text at
the end of the Save as type: list.
With LO 3.3.2 on Windows 7, there is nothing below OpenOffice XML Text on the
pull-down. I can't upgrade my Win7 yet, so can't tell if this is an LO
version difference or it is because the additional XSLT filter packs need to
be installed on Win7 in this case.
- Dennis
And that has what to do with the subject of this thread? Hint: "Flat xml
format (.fodt) broek/unsupported on LibreOffice writer 3.4.3, Windows 7 ?"
Hi 
How about trying the portable apps approach?
http://www.libreoffice.org/download/portable/
to avoid having to install on a locked-down Windows system?
Ideally i guess you might be able to have 2 versions of LO running alongside each other so you could try the new without losing the old.
http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Installing_in_parallel
Regards from
Tom
I would like to use the .fodt format in LibreOffice with SVN for a
documentation system.
Nice to know someone else has realised how useful this function is!
After a fresh installation, the format doesn't appear in the "Save as.."
box in version 3.4.3 on Windows 7.
As has already been written, m$ users need to activate the
installation program to select the xslt filter.
In addition, see previous thread and bugs quoted:
http://www.mail-archive.com/users@global.libreoffice.org/msg11733.html
[slightly OT]
Thanks for mentioning this format. I always thought it would have been nice to have svn-versionable documents...
Pity it has problems with images embedded as OLE objects, but that'd be a different thread (and I'm talking about OOo here...)
[/OT]
Concerning the OT about binary representations (namely, OLE embedding) in the
flat XML:
There is no prohibition in ODF to storing the OLE-embedding in-line using
<office:binary-data> to carry the embedded OLE in a base64Binary
representation as text. In the ODF 1.2 specification, this opportunity is
explicitly called out.
The storage inflation is a tolerable 0.33 x the binary size in bytes, although
it also takes longer to parse through the stream (something the Zip avoids by
having the OLE in a separate binary Zip part and by using compression wherever
possible).
It is simply a matter of implementing it. It would be interesting to make
some test documents that exercise that provision and see what happens.
- Dennis
PS: There is one challenge. There is currently no way to carry a MIME type
with the <draw:object-ole> or its <office:binary-data> child, so it may be
tricky to know whose serialization of the OLE embedding is being used. It
appears that Sun/OOo have their own, and Microsoft uses a different one. It
may require that recognition of the embedding format be distinguishable by
sniffing the binary data.
Observations so far (fodp containing png images, some of these images
converted from objects containing jpeg components) are that in
conjunction with subversion and opening on multiple machines, document
integrity is maintained.
Hi
How about trying the portable apps approach?
http://www.libreoffice.org/download/portable/
to avoid having to install on a locked-down Windows system?Ideally i guess you might be able to have 2 versions of LO running alongside each other so you could try the new without losing the old.
http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Installing_in_parallel
Regards from
Tom
Please mind your attributions; I didn't write *any* of the following: