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Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2010 08:36:38 +0100
From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>
To: Anton Shterenlikht <mexas@bristol.ac.uk>
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Subject: Re: how to read .ods (OpenDocument Spreadsheet) without KOffice?
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On Wed, 17 Feb 2010 23:30:26 +0000, Anton Shterenlikht <mexas@bristol.ac.uk> wrote:
> I was sent some ods (OpenDocument Spreadsheet) files.
> I'm not really keen to install KOffice.
> Is there another program in the ports which
> could be used to view ods files or to convert
> them into pdf or PostScript?

May sound like an adventure, but may be possible: Extract
the compressed ods files (ZIP archive, if I remember correctly)
and you have XML files (data files and style files); I
am sure that there is a program that can interpret those
data at least "read-only" and give you a readable output
that you can forward to printer preprocessing (in order
to have PS or PDF).

As I've never really worked with Abiword, I can't tell 
you if it'll run on IA64 / sparc64 and if it will open
the ods files...


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Polytropon
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