Third-party software integration: OpenOffice.org
OpenKM can convert some document types to PDF. This is a great help if need to read an Microsoft Office / OpenOffice.org document and you don't have the software installed in the computer.
In a recent Ubuntu or Debian release, you can install it simply as:
$ sudo aptitude install openoffice.org
Recently has been released OpenOffice.org 3.3.0 and is not fully tested unde OpenKM. You can download the previous stable from OpenOffice Archive Servers.
OpenKM 5.1
You can also configure OpenKM to use a remote server for OpenOffice document conversion.
system.openoffice.server=http://localhost:8080/converter/convert
This feature is under development and actually not released for public testing. |
OpenKM 5.0
In this OpenKM some things changes. You can configure OpenOffice.org listen port and a maximun conversion tasks:
system.openoffice.path=/usr/lib/openoffice
system.openoffice.tasks=5
system.openoffice.port=2222
In case of LibreOffice and Linux, the system.openoffice.path property should be set to /usr/lib/libreoffice. Note that system.openoffice.tasks and system.openoffice.port have already a default value and is not needed to be set.
Starting from OpenKM 5.0 you don't need to start OpenOffice.org as a service because OpenKM will take case of this. You only need to set the system.openoffice configuration property in OpenKM.cfg to the path of a working OpenOffice.org installation. |
Linux
system.openoffice.path=/usr/lib/openoffice
Windows
system.openoffice.path=C:/Program Files/OpenOffice.org 3
or
system.openoffice.path=C:\\Program Files\\OpenOffice.org 3
OpenKM 4.x and older versions
You need an OpenOffice.org installation in the OpenKM server, and also this OpenOffice.org application has to be running in server mode (also known as headless). In Debian / Ubuntu, depending of you OpenOffice.org version you will have to install an X11 virtual server or not:
$ apt-get install xvfb
And start it using this command:
$ xvfb-run /usr/lib/openoffice/program/soffice -headless -accept="socket,host=127.0.0.1,port=8100;urp;" -nofirststartwizard
From OpenOffice.org 2.3, it is not necessary the X11 virtual server but you should install these packages:
$ aptitude install openoffice.org-headless openoffice.org-java openoffice.org
But before of this, you must enable a couple of repositories:
deb http://en.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hardy-updates universe
deb http://en.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hardy-updates multiverse
This script simplifies the start process (For security reasons, you should no start OpenOffice.org as root):
#!/bin/sh
unset DISPLAY
/usr/lib/openoffice/program/soffice "-accept=socket,host=localhost,port=8100;urp;StarOffice.ServiceManager" -nologo
-headless -nofirststartwizard
OpenOffice.org will listen at port 8100, so you can check that the application has started running this:
$ netstat -putan | grep 8100
Also you can configure OpenOffice.org as a service with this script:
#!/bin/bash
# openoffice.org headless server script
#
# chkconfig: 2345 80 30 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting 2345 80 30 end_of_the_skype_highlighting begin_of_the_skype_highlighting 2345 80 30 end_of_the_skype_highlighting
# description: headless openoffice server script
# processname: openoffice
#
# Author: Vic Vijayakumar
# Modified by Paco Avila and Federico Ch. Tomasczik
#
SOFFICE=/usr/bin/soffice
PIDFILE=/var/run/openoffice-server.pid
set -e
case "$1" in
start)
if [ -f $PIDFILE ]; then
echo "OpenOffice headless server has already started."
sleep 5
exit
fi
echo "Starting OpenOffice headless server"
$SOFFICE -headless -nologo -nofirststartwizard -accept="socket,host=127.0.0.1,port=8100;urp" & > /dev/null 2>&1
touch $PIDFILE
;;
stop)
if [ -f $PIDFILE ]; then
echo "Stopping OpenOffice headless server."
killall -9 soffice && killall -9 soffice.bin
rm -f $PIDFILE
exit
fi
echo "Openoffice headless server is not running."
exit
;;
*)
echo "Usage: $0 {start|stop}"
exit 1
esac
exit 0
Change the permissions to this file:
$ chmod 0755 /etc/init.d/openoffice
Install openoffice init script links:
For Debian based distros like Ubuntu
$ update-rc.d openoffice defaults
For RedHat based distros like CentOS
$ chkconfig --add openoffice
And this script will launch OpenOffice.org on every system reboot. Also you can launch it manually this way:
$ /etc/init.d/openoffice start
More info at:
- OpenOffice Installation Instructions for Windows
- http://www.artofsolving.com/node/10
- http://www.oooforum.org/forum/viewtopic.phtml?t=11890
- http://code.google.com/p/openmeetings/wiki/OpenOfficeConverter
Windows
Install Windows Server 2003 Resource Kit Tools in your computer for example at c:\tools
Create a openoffice service cd c:\tools
instsrv openoffice c:\tools\srvany.exe
Modify system registry using regedit, got to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\openoffice
Add key Parameters
Into Parameters add mew parameters key Application as REG_SZ ( String value ) with your server soffice.exe path, for example C:\Archivos de programa\OpenOffice.org 3\program\soffice.exe
Into Parameter add new parameters key AppParameters as REG_SZ with value -nofirststartwizard -nologo -headless -accept=socket,host=localhost,port=8100;urp;StarOffice.ServiceManager
To start service type:
net start openoffice
To ensure service is well installed:
netstat -anp tcp
To delete the service type:
sc delete openoffice
More info at: