June 9, 2008 at 13:20Extensions for OpenOffice
In order to somehow fill the gap on extensions in OpenOffice , I decided to make a small selection with a brief description. A little googling, I realized that the topic is very relevant, but it is covered very poorly. The purpose of this article is not to describe all the existing extensions, but only to tell what they are, what they can do and where to get them.
If we compare the number of extensions with what FireFox offers, for example, then for OpenOffice they are several times smaller, but their number is constantly increasing.
Writer's Tools - a whole package of new features: a list of tasks (tasks), a search for the desired word (lookup tool), built-in translation (google translate), a backup with a copy sent to mail (Email Backup) or via FTP (Remote Backup), a converter to various formats of a group of files (Convert To Tool), an application manager for launching programs directly from a text document (App Launcher), copying excerpts of text into a database (Add To Basket) and much more, including the likeness of the game “Field of Miracles” :)
Annotation Tool - allows you to select part of the text to give comments. Now users get by with small yellow rectangles that are easily lost in the text.
Sun Weblog Publisher- The extension allows you to publish blog entries on different blog services. It is possible to add tables, lists, links, graphics and check spelling. (Paid, $ 10).
ParaDTP is a utility that allows you to quickly work with text: change the font size, the distance between lines in the text.
Calc2DokuWiki - Import tables (or parts of a table) into Dokuwiki.
Sun Report Builder - create stylish reports.
CADOO.o - creation of technical drawings.
SVG Import - Extension for importing and editing SVG graphics.
eVoice is an extension for inserting voice comments into slides. The utility allows you to record a voice and “attach” it to the selected slide. Speex format is used for voice compression.
Sun Presentation Minimizer is a utility for optimizing graphics in presentations and reducing file size.
Multipages is an extension that simplifies working with documents that contain hundreds or thousands of pages.
OpenOffice.org2GoogleDocs - import / export of documents from / to Google Docs or Zoho.
PhotoAlbum - create photo albums.
CodeFormatter - code highlighting for C ++, Java, StarBasic.
Tabbed windows extenstion - bookmarking functionality for open documents (for example, like in Firefox).
A complete collection of extensions can be found here: Extension repository . It is worth remembering that some functionality will already be built into future versions of the package (for example, advanced features for working with Notes2 comments) My overall impression of extensions in OpenOffice is this: the industry is in its infancy. Many extensions are under development.
An article by Dmitry Popov about OO extensions.
Official site for OpenOffice extensions.
Wiki for OpenOffice developers.
If we compare the number of extensions with what FireFox offers, for example, then for OpenOffice they are several times smaller, but their number is constantly increasing.
Writer
Writer's Tools - a whole package of new features: a list of tasks (tasks), a search for the desired word (lookup tool), built-in translation (google translate), a backup with a copy sent to mail (Email Backup) or via FTP (Remote Backup), a converter to various formats of a group of files (Convert To Tool), an application manager for launching programs directly from a text document (App Launcher), copying excerpts of text into a database (Add To Basket) and much more, including the likeness of the game “Field of Miracles” :)
Annotation Tool - allows you to select part of the text to give comments. Now users get by with small yellow rectangles that are easily lost in the text.
Sun Weblog Publisher- The extension allows you to publish blog entries on different blog services. It is possible to add tables, lists, links, graphics and check spelling. (Paid, $ 10).
ParaDTP is a utility that allows you to quickly work with text: change the font size, the distance between lines in the text.
Calc
Calc2DokuWiki - Import tables (or parts of a table) into Dokuwiki.
Base
Sun Report Builder - create stylish reports.
Draw
CADOO.o - creation of technical drawings.
SVG Import - Extension for importing and editing SVG graphics.
Impress
eVoice is an extension for inserting voice comments into slides. The utility allows you to record a voice and “attach” it to the selected slide. Speex format is used for voice compression.
Sun Presentation Minimizer is a utility for optimizing graphics in presentations and reducing file size.
Common to the entire OpenOffice package
Multipages is an extension that simplifies working with documents that contain hundreds or thousands of pages.
OpenOffice.org2GoogleDocs - import / export of documents from / to Google Docs or Zoho.
PhotoAlbum - create photo albums.
CodeFormatter - code highlighting for C ++, Java, StarBasic.
Tabbed windows extenstion - bookmarking functionality for open documents (for example, like in Firefox).
A complete collection of extensions can be found here: Extension repository . It is worth remembering that some functionality will already be built into future versions of the package (for example, advanced features for working with Notes2 comments) My overall impression of extensions in OpenOffice is this: the industry is in its infancy. Many extensions are under development.
References
An article by Dmitry Popov about OO extensions.
Official site for OpenOffice extensions.
Wiki for OpenOffice developers.
