January 15, 2008

Five valuable OpenOffice.org extensions

Every Monday Linux.com highlights a different extension, plugin, or add-on. Five OpenOffice.org extensions were presented last week.

Bookmarks Menu – an extension to add a menu like a favorits menu on the OpenOffice.org menubar. This extension is based on the idea of Malte Timmermann’s Favorites Menu. Favorites Menu is temporaly created menus but a menu created by BookmarksMenu extension is parmanent. But easy to remove it.

OpenOffice.org2GoogleDocs – Export and Import your documents to Google Docs from OpenOffice.org, and from OpenOffice.org to Google Docs. Needs Java 6 to work.

Code Formatter – Source Code fragments in C++, Java, or StarBasic can be color coded for a better appearance. StarBasic is formatted to like like the OOo IDE. Java colors mimic those in Eclipse.

OOoSVN – A project to provide change control for OpenOffice.org documents (OpenDocument and *.sx*) via subversion. Transparently checks in internal changes in files and allows users to recover any previous version, view logs and compare with older versions. Works under Unix/Linux and Mac OSX.

mOOo Impress Controller – ava ME application (mobile) and a Java SE Add-On (desktop) that controls a slide presentation in OOo (OpenOffice.org) Impress. The user can switch slides (next and previous) while a timer (used for presentation controlling) is displayed on the screen.

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