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mscion is offline mscion
2010-10-20 , 13:12
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Originally Posted by rebhana View Post
OO core and common are automatically included, the difference is mainky in the absence of java components, but it seems unlikely to me that they could make a difference wrt the banner.

Lyx I know, but I don't use it. If you want to try it but don't have enough spce in the image, you could consider using two images with different content!
Good point. I just bought a 16G memory card!

One more note in regards to the banner. If I disable Quickoffice the correct (unskewed) banner also appears in LXDE.

Openoffice has an extension you can install called writer2latex You can find it on squeeze or sid (another version on Lenny). but it is crashing OO when I use it in Debian. Has anyone had any luck getting it to work?

A working writer2latex is good in that it improves the portability of documents on different operating systems. Currently, openoffice seems to do a better job than other apps in reproducing documents that, in particular, have equations made with Word. For example Abiword, Freoffice, and Documents to Go Premium can have problems reproducing documents with something as simple as raising a variable to a power ( Documents to Go Premium did correctly recover the Navier Stokes equations so I was surprised when it failed in the former case). Anyways, no problem for OO. Actually, my preference is to use Latex as it is much easier and quicker for me. So writing or reading a document in OO and then exporting it as a Latex file could be quite useful. Going from Latex to Word is another issue!

Also, I installed writer2html and, well.., it at least did not crash OO.
 

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