There is an off-topic question for Tim in Options for "FilterName" and properties for saving PDF My Java app finishes by exporting a Writer document to PDF. This works perfectly when running in Windows 7 or Windows 10, but fails spectacularly when running in Windows 2019 Datacenter if the...

The pages are still missing, but a search for the page on the WayBackMachine showed it had been captured there in 2017: https://web.archive.org/web/20170319141257/https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/API/Tutorials/PDF_export This is essential information, not documented anywhere else, as far as I can de...

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Does anyone know what the heck is going on at the Developer Guide? :shock: Important pages have apparently been deleted, such as https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/DevGuide/Text/Overall_Document_Features The API/Tutorial on exporting to PDF has been deleted. This was very useful informat...

No, unfortunately.

I have a UNO API Java application I created that runs great with OpenOffice on every OS except a Linux server. Linux desktop, yes; Linux server, no. The obvious difference between the Linux desktop and the Linux server is the latter has no X windows. But I was able to get my UNO API application to w...

Has anyone used the interface XDocumentDigitalSignatures (http://www.openoffice.org/api/docs/comm ... entContent)? Does it work as described ?

Thanks,
Tim.

Thanks, I'll try it.

I'm running a Java UNO API app that launches OpenOffice Writer in headless mode, opens a couple of Writer docs, does some stuff to them, and then closes both docs. Once OO has done what I want, it sometimes exits and sometimes it doesn't. I don't know why, but I want it to exit every time. How do I ...

Thanks!

Is there a way for me to use the OpenOffice Writer dialogs in my Basic macros?

For example, I would like to add a button to one of my Basic dialogs that opens the Page Style dialog for the selected page style.

Thanks for your help,
Tim.

Thanks!

I share your frustration with Basic.

Is there a way to get access to the fonts installed on the system? I'm creating a styling wizard and I'd like to provide my users with a way to select a font from the ones available on the system.

Thanks,
Tim.

I'm trying to get the LevelFormat properties from an existing DocumentIndex in a Writer document. The Developer Guide says: LevelFormat contains the various levels as a com.sun.star.container.XIndexReplace object. Each level is a sequence of com.sun.star.beans.PropertyValues which are defined in the...

The Developer's Guide says to use the com.sun.star.text.XDocumentIndex update() method to update a contents index. This method will certainly update the contents index for such things as a change in the number of levels that appear in the content index. But it doesn't update the page numbers, even t...

Ok, I've narrowed down the problem, and it appears to be nothing to do with closing things. The following code will compile and build no problem. But when I run it, it's behaviour changes depending on whether or not an instance of OpenOffice is already running. If no instance of OpenOffice is runnin...

I'm developing a UNO API client. The first version loaded a source text document, exported it to PDF, and then closed the document using the dispose() method. It then invoked System.Exit() to exit. Worked fine. The second version opens a source text document, makes some changes to it, stores it back...

OK, the answer to this one does kind of fall into the :knock: category. As the release notes for the OO SDK 3.3 point out, you have to "use the -d32 switch to ensure that your program using the simple bootstrap mechasnism [sic] use a 32-bit data model", which is their rather ambiguous way ...

My UNO client app runs fine on Windows. On a Macintosh, however, it starts up OpenOffice and then exits, with no message of any kind. I've tried compiling it in NetBeans on a Macintosh, but there's no improvement. It runs the bootstrap code, starts up OpenOffice, and then immediately jumps to System...

I got the PDF export to work with linked graphics. Instead of exporting the PDF immediately after processing my source file, I changed my app to first save the processed source file, then re-load it, and only then perform the PDF export. It appears OO Writer changed the way I was organizing the refe...

Ok, I have more information. My code hasn't changed, but the way graphics are included in the documents has: they are now linked, rather than embedded. When the graphics are embedded, they appear in the exported PDF; when they are linked, they don't appear. I've tried using the XLinkUpdate interface...

All of a sudden, the PDFs that my Java UNO API app exports from OO Writer documents no longer contain graphics -- just empty boxes. In some of them, links no longer work, either. If I manually export to PDF from these documents, the PDFs contain the graphics, exactly as they did before, and all the ...

Thanks to help from Charlie and from my ace brother Simon, I got this working. Here is the Java code I use: // Get the TextTablesSupplier interface of the document XTextTablesSupplier xTableSupplier = (XTextTablesSupplier) UnoRuntime.queryInterface(XTextTablesSupplier.class, xDoc); // Get an XIndexA...

I assumed that what was available in Basic was also available in Java. Apparently not. Here is my Java code: // Get the TextTablesSupplier interface of the document XTextTablesSupplier xTableSupplier = (XTextTablesSupplier) UnoRuntime.queryInterface(XTextTablesSupplier.class, xDoc); // Get an XIndex...

Thanks again for your help Charlie.

I don't understand how the second part would work, since autoformat() is not a method that's available on TextTable objects.

Tim.

... the autoformat() method requires a cell range as input... I meant to say that creating an instance of the XAutoformattable interface requires a cell range as a context, not autoformat(). But this doesn't change the problem that there is apparently no method on the XTextTable interface to get a ...

Thanks, Charlie, I'll check it out.

This page talks about it: http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wik ... formatting

But it doesn't exist in com.sun.star.sheet.

Any one know where or whether it exists?

Thanks,
Tim.

The developer guide says in two places that you can apply autoformats to text tables. But there is no description how to do this. There is a code sample that shows how to apply autoformats to cells in spreadsheet tables, but this doesn't appear to work for text tables, because the autoformat() metho...

Solved ... no thanks to Sun/Oracle, which, due to its lack of specific information, caused me to waste most of two days trying to get it to work. What Sun/Oracle doesn't tell anyone is that even though OpenOffice and the OpenOffice SDK are both available for 64-bit Linux, the Windows versions are 32...