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 ====== Greenstone Extensions ====== ====== Greenstone Extensions ======
-==== OpenOffice====+===== OpenOffice=====
 The Open Office extension provides a document conversion facility if **Open Office //or// LibreOffice** is already installed on the system. In order to use the Open Office extension,  The Open Office extension provides a document conversion facility if **Open Office //or// LibreOffice** is already installed on the system. In order to use the Open Office extension, 
    * You will need [[http://www.openoffice.org/|Open Office]] installed. You may need to create an environment variable called SOFFICE_HOME and set this to the full path of your OpenOffice or LibreOffice installation folder, if:    * You will need [[http://www.openoffice.org/|Open Office]] installed. You may need to create an environment variable called SOFFICE_HOME and set this to the full path of your OpenOffice or LibreOffice installation folder, if:
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    * Before you can use this (or any other Greenstone extension), you will need to quit GLI and GS3-server if either are open and then you will need to relaunch GLI (or run Greenstone scripts) from a fresh command terminal, in order for the extension to become available in the Greenstone environment. (Once again, if you have openoffice or libreoffice installed outside the customary locations, then before doing so, make sure to have set up SOFFICE_HOME and updated the PATH environment variables.)    * Before you can use this (or any other Greenstone extension), you will need to quit GLI and GS3-server if either are open and then you will need to relaunch GLI (or run Greenstone scripts) from a fresh command terminal, in order for the extension to become available in the Greenstone environment. (Once again, if you have openoffice or libreoffice installed outside the customary locations, then before doing so, make sure to have set up SOFFICE_HOME and updated the PATH environment variables.)
    * With OpenOffice and the extension installed and the Greenstone environment set up for this, Greenstone's Word, PowerPoint and Excel Plugins will have a new option, "-openoffice_conversion", allowing conversion with Open Office instead of the existing converter. Switching on this new option means that more recent Office formats like docx can be included in Greenstone collections and processed by Greenstone.    * With OpenOffice and the extension installed and the Greenstone environment set up for this, Greenstone's Word, PowerPoint and Excel Plugins will have a new option, "-openoffice_conversion", allowing conversion with Open Office instead of the existing converter. Switching on this new option means that more recent Office formats like docx can be included in Greenstone collections and processed by Greenstone.
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 +===== User-contributed notes =====
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 +==== Getting LibreOffice====
 +
 +LibreOffice is available directly from their website at:
 +
 +www.libreoffice.org/download/download/
 +
 +These are the latest releases for most deb and rpm based linux
 +distributions and for windows and macOS.
 +
 +The packages are large, and in the case of deb packages are
 +themselves a collection of deb packages. 
 +
 +  * Don't use a snap or appimage version as these don't interface with Greenstone.
 +
 +==== Issues with running LibreOffice in conjunction with Greenstone ====
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