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New feature: document conversion

Bruno Farache

December 29, 2007

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The Document Library portlet will provide document conversions in Liferay 4.4, here's a screenshot:

This requires OpenOffice v2.0.3 or higher running as a service, locally or remotely.

Here are the supported formats:

From (any of)	To (any of)
Text Formats
OpenDocument Text (.odt) OpenOffice.org 1.0 Text (.sxw) Rich Text Format (.rtf) Microsoft Word (.doc) WordPerfect (.wpd) Plain Text (.txt)	Portable Document Format (.pdf) OpenDocument Text (.odt) OpenOffice.org 1.0 Text (.sxw) Rich Text Format (.rtf) Microsoft Word (.doc) Plain Text (.txt)
Spreadsheet Formats
OpenDocument Spreadsheet (.ods) OpenOffice.org 1.0 Spreadsheet (.sxc) Microsoft Excel (.xls) Comma-Separated Values (.csv) Tab-Separated Values (*.tsv)	Portable Document Format (.pdf) OpenDocument Spreadsheet (.ods) OpenOffice.org 1.0 Spreadsheet (.sxc) Microsoft Excel (.xls) Comma-Separated Values (.csv) Tab-Separated Values (.tsv)
Presentation Formats
OpenDocument Presentation (.odp) OpenOffice.org 1.0 Presentation (.sxi) Microsoft PowerPoint (*.ppt)	Portable Document Format (.pdf) Macromedia Flash (.swf) OpenDocument Presentation (.odp) OpenOffice.org 1.0 Presentation (.sxi) Microsoft PowerPoint (*.ppt)
Drawing Formats
OpenDocument Drawing (*.odg)	Scalable Vector Graphics (.svg) Macromedia Flash (.swf)

For more information check this wiki page.

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Cool beans Brunster. Categorize your wiki articles! ;)

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I have followed the instructions on Document Conversion with OpenOffice at http://wiki.liferay.com/index.php/Document_Conversion_with_OpenOffice but when I get to step 3. "Go to Admin portlet, then click on the Server tab, then OpenOffice tab" I did not see the OpenOffice tab. I do I get it to show?

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