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1417440 2016-03-14 04:13:00 I've got a few . abw documents in Puppy that I need converted to . odt for Open Office . Any way to do this without a lot of fuss?

I have an old Win XP-P dual-booted with Puppy/Slacko, and I can't get . abw's to print on the XP side, and I tried putting the . abw's in a stick and physically tried to re-read them on XP side - it didn't work .

AND . . . . I REALLY really want to get rid of the default processor in Puppy: Abiword, and get Open Office in this distro .

I'm sure I downloaded it, but I'll be damned if I can find it again . And even if I do find it, then how do I get it to install?

Puppy is not housebroken yet . I'm working on it, but it's a vertical curve to learn . I see it's 64F in ChCh - warmer than we are here at the mo . Of course, it's 22:10:17 right now - and we just had our semi-annual time change . Yuck . nonsense .

AND ---- what does 'sfs" mean?
SurferJoe46 (51)
1417441 2016-03-14 04:16:00 :devil
Are you looking for translation to Proper English from American Speak? PJ
Poppa John (284)
1417442 2016-03-14 04:25:00 In Abiword you need a plugin called Open Document Filter, it will allow you to save files in Abiword for Open/Libre Office.

I suggest using LibreOffice over OpenOffice for licensing reasons but its really a personal preference.

Cheers,

KK
Kame (312)
1417443 2016-03-14 04:46:00 1. US English, with the King's Nose, Arm, and nether body parts as units of measure.

2. Will Libre work to read/wrete/edit odt files?
SurferJoe46 (51)
1417444 2016-03-14 04:53:00 OK - I'm trying to instal Libre, and I get a popup that says that I have Open Office already installed

(and I say: "Where - I'd like to use it!") ...........

................but that I have to uninstall it in PPM something-or-other in my Bootloader - wherever and whatever that is first.

Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeek!

Any of youse guys visiting the USA this winter? I'll be having Summer here when youse guys are freezing.

Free room and board as long as you give me one-on-one Puppy classes.
SurferJoe46 (51)
1417445 2016-03-14 05:49:00 For Open Document Filter, is this what you mean?


www.openoffice.org


OpenOffice.org filters using the XML based file format





Abstract: This document explains the implementation of OpenOffice.org import and export filter components, focusing on filter components based on the OpenOffice.org XML file format. It is intended as a brief introduction to developers that want to implement OpenOffice.org filters for foreign file formats.





Table Of Contents

1 Preliminaries

2 The Innards of an OpenOffice.org Filter Component

2.1 The Big Picture

2.2 Where XML Comes In...

2.3 Waiter, the Export Please!

2.4 A Second Look at the Filter Wrapper

2.5 The Services

2.6 Interfaces

2.7 Built-in Components

2.8 Registering a New Filter With the Application

3 Code examples

3.1 The Filter Wrapper: Instantiating the XML Filters

3.2 Exporting through the XML filter

3.3 Import: Writing into the XML Filter

4 Appendix

4.1 Others Uses

4.2 Resources




I have no idea what any of that means, so if I have to use that stuff, I'm screwed.
SurferJoe46 (51)
1417446 2016-03-14 06:20:00 Further Googling says to get PUPBEGONE at www.murga-linux.com , but I can't find it anywhere. And how do I instal it after I get it anyway? IF I could find it?

Puppy ain't fun no more.

Now I get told I need wrappers and that most parts aren't found so they are ignored. And that I need to install Chrome Pet22 for Slack first to make this work, but only after I download all the dependencies that I don't have. And that I have "inherited keybindings that are only available in Seamonkey.

What am I in to here?
SurferJoe46 (51)
1417447 2016-03-14 07:25:00 Puppy is fairly a basic distro.
What's the horsepower of your pc.
You may be able to run one of the earlier mint versions or lubuntu.
Driftwood (5551)
1417448 2016-03-14 08:01:00 Quad core, lots of Ram - I think full slots w/4G per, 4 500G hdds, I forget the processor speed, threading allowed, JBOD, but it's a fairly good unit .

Not a gamer machine - I like to run vids and lots of music . I also have a DA/AD and virtual mixers etc for home recording in 32 track . This all worked until M$ obsoleted all my sound cards with Win 8 . 1 and then W10 .

I've lost access to my virtual machines and recording studio . That's where I am right now . I can't afford to re-buy $1000USD newer versions just to feed Gates and his hot-n-cold running secretaries on the 11th floor .

I can't even print out music scores, nor can I copy/paste anything . It's driving me nuts .

I think the machine should run Puppy fair enough . I like Puppy, it's just this line-entry/code stuff that I cannot understand, and all the acronyms .

The acronyms are the worst . I need a 3,000+ page glossary just to try to understand what they represent, then someone to tell me how they work together . Or don't .
SurferJoe46 (51)
1417449 2016-03-14 08:08:00 The plugin is for AbiWord so that you can export to an Open Document format.

www.abisource.com

What were your reasons for choosing Slacko? You would find Ubuntu based distributions a lot more friendlier. Maybe Puppy based on Ubuntu or LXLE would hopefully give you a better experience for old computers.

Although if you do continue on your path, you could learn a lot more of the work you would need to do to get things working.

Cheers,

KK
Kame (312)
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