Open Document Format reader and/or editor?

[gdorsb]

I've searched these forums and the web but just can't to find a Pocket PC app. that will let me view or edit .odt files (Open Document Text format as used by Open Office Writer).

Without such a program, my PPC ties me to using MS Word, whereas I'd really like to give OO a go.

Any ideas, anyone?

[Menneisyys]

I've searched these forums and the web but just can't to find a Pocket PC app. that will let me view or edit .odt files (Open Document Text format as used by Open Office Writer).

Without such a program, my PPC ties me to using MS Word, whereas I'd really like to give OO a go.

Any ideas, anyone?

Welcome to PPCT,

it seems there aren't any native readers. You must explicitly export your stuff into, for example, HTML or PDB; see the "Support for DocBook and PDA File Formats" section at http://www.linuxhotbox.com/officesuite/openoffice-features.htm on this.

You may also want to read http://hardware.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=05/04/13/1758241&tid=59&tid=130 on XMerge, a very promising, new project. (It doesn't provide native OO doc reading support tough either.)

[gdorsb]

Welcome to PPCT

Thanks, I've been lurking a while. It's a very impressive anf friendly site.


You may also want to read http://hardware.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=05/04/13/1758241&tid=59&tid=130 on XMerge, a very promising, new project. (It doesn't provide native OO doc reading support tough either.)

Sadly XMerge doesn't yet offer support for Open Office 2.0.

With the adoption of its own XML based format in Office 12, I guess MS will add this functionality to future upgrades of Pocket Word and Pocket Excel.

Looks like I'm going to plod on with MS Word '97 for a while longer. :cry:

Am I the only one who would like to use OOo 2.0 with a Pocket PC?

[Sven Johannsen]

If you can live with just a viewer for a while, in hopes and editor appears, Repligo might be an option. It works as a printer, so you would just print your Open Office Docs to the Repligo printer, creating a .rgo file that can be viewd on the PPC, or desktop for that matter. Like Adobe all the viewers for Repligo are free, the printer apps is licensed, but the price is reasonable.

http://www.cerience.com/products/repligo.htm

[gwinter]

During OO install, if you choose custem install, there are options that let you install sync component for PPC or Palm. Admittedly I never tried it and don't know what it does exactly, but the first thing that comes to mind when I see this is that it is a filter that convert from OO format to pocket word format during sync. I think.