.ODT, the word processing file format of OpenDocument, an open standard for electronic documents
Questions tagged [odt]
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PHP PDF template library with PDF output?
Is there any PHP PDF library that can replace placeholder variables in an existing PDF, ODT or DOCX document, and generate a PDF file as the end result, without screwing up the layout?
Requirements:
Needs no 3rd party web service
Ability to run…

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Add styling rules in pandoc tables for odt/docx output (table borders)
I'm generating some odt/docx reports via markdown using knitr and pandoc and am now wondering how you'd go about formating tables. Primarily I'm interested in adding rules (at least top, bottom and one below the header, but being able to add…

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how to create an odt file programmatically with java?
How can I create an odt (LibreOffice/OpenOffice Writer) file with Java programmatically? A "hello world" example will be sufficient. I looked at the OpenOffice website but the documentation wasn't clear.

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how to share odt/doc documents over git
The idea is that I want to share and track documents over git
I thought about using Text Documents (markdown docs that look like docx,odt in functionality) that can be edited with any text editor (not binary). Where to find something like this?
any…

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Converting HTML to odt, doc, docx
Is there an easy way to convert HTML(with CSS styles and embedded images) to ODT, DOCX, DOC from the command line on linux server. I searched a lot but have not found a good option.
There was a problem the same way to convert to PDF, decided by…

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How to convert .docx to .odt with Libreoffice on Ubuntu bash
There is a problem for converting DOCX to PDF using Libreoffice.(in RTL documents)
but converting same document saved in ODT format will works fine.
Anyone knows how to convert an existing DOCX file to ODT using Ubuntu bash?

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Which output format of Libre Office can I use to track the history of my files?
I thought of using the FODT output format for tracking the history of files using Git SCM.
But it seems that FODT is quite verbose. For example
I generated a file That contains Hello Wordld!
I changed the Text to Hello World.
Then I checked the…

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What is the purpose of the Configurations2 directory inside of an ODF-Document?
The directory is not mentioned in the OASIS-Specification of ODF. Does anyone know the purpose of this directory?
Its structure is as…

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Is there a simple way to write an ODT using Python?
My point is that using either pod (from appy framework, which is a pain to use for me) or the OpenOffice UNO bridge that seems soon to be deprecated, and that requires OOo.org to run while launching my script is not satisfactory at all.
Can anyone…

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How to grab text from .odt file
I need to grab all text from odf files (open document format) in C#. I found AODL library, and installed it.
I visited AODL's page https://wiki.openoffice.org to find examples on how to do the task I need, but they were all unsuccessful. For a…

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How to treat uncompressed folder as compressed file?
We all know about tools, 3rd-party or built in to the OS, for treating compressed files as folders. But does anyone know how to do the reverse: trick the OS into thinking that a standard folder containing some files is actually a zipped file? …

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How to Search and Replace in odt Open Office document?
In my Delphi application I am currently do Search&Replace programmatically for doc and docx word documents using office ole automation. Does anyone has the code to do the same (for doc, docs, odt) in OpenOffice?
I also asked a related question on…

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Installing Office into Windows Container (servercore:ltsc2019) failed with error code 17002
Error Message
ODT (Office Deployment Tool) log reported error when installing into Windows Container (Server Core): C2R client returned failing error code, error code: 17002
Environments
Behavior in Windows Server 2019 (1809) with Desktop…

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Search and replace text odfpy
I'm trying to make reports for a program using odfpy. My idea is to search for each keywords like [[[e_mail_address]]] and replace it by a word from the database.
I found the function text in odfpy api, but converted into string looses the…

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emacs org mode : How to select a page style when exporting to odt?
I am exporting an org document to odt using org-odt-export-to-odt (Org-mode version 8.2.6 and emacs 23) and I would like the first page to get the OrgFirstPage style and the following pages to get the OrgPage style.
I tried using a custom style file…

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