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Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2012 08:50:18 +0100
From: Rory O'Farrell <ofarrwrk@iol.ie>
To: ooo-users@incubator.apache.org
Subject: Re: Has anyone managed to get the spellchecking working
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On Sat, 27 Oct 2012 15:12:01 +0800 (WST)
Bret Busby <bret@busby.net> wrote:

> On Fri, 26 Oct 2012, Hagar Delest wrote:
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> > Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2012 02:29:16
> > From: Hagar Delest <hagar.delest@laposte.net>
> > Reply-To: ooo-users@incubator.apache.org
> > To: ooo-users@incubator.apache.org
> > Subject: Re: Has anyone managed to get the spellchecking working
> >=20
> > Some hints with screenshots here also:=20
> > http://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3D74&t=3D16512
> >
> > Hagar
> >
> >
> > Le 26/10/2012 08:29, Bret Busby a =E9crit :
> >
> >> Hello.
> >>=20
> >> I am running Open Office 3 on Debian 6 ;
> >>=20
> >> "
> >> OpenOffice.org 3.2.1
> >> OOO320m19 (Build:9505)
> >> ooo-build 3.2.1.4, Debian package 1:3.2.1-11+squeeze7
> >> "
> >>=20
> >> I have not been able to get the spellchecking working.
> >>=20
> >> All of the switches are set, for the spell checking to work, and to "c=
heck=20
> >> spelling as you type", but, even if I manually try to get the spell ch=
ecker=20
> >> to check a document, it simply tells me that it has completed, but it =
does=20
> >> not pick up any errors.
> >>=20
> >> Has anyone managed to get the spellchecker working in Open Offioce wri=
ter=20
> >> 3.x, and, if so, what does it take, to get it to work?
> >>=20
> >> I have even enabled the unknown (to me) dictionary of Attilla the Hun =
or=20
> >> whatever it is, that is the first dictionary listed, in addition to th=
e=20
> >> standard dictionary, but every possible spelling is apparently allowed=
, and=20
> >> no spellchecking appears to occur.
> >>=20
> >> Thank you in anticipation.
> >>=20
> >> --
> >> Bret Busby
> >> Armadale
> >> West Australia
> >> ..............
> >>=20
> >> "So once you do know what the question actually is,
> >>   you'll know what the answer means."
> >> - Deep Thought,
> >>    Chapter 28 of Book 1 of
> >>    "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy:
> >>    A Trilogy In Four Parts",
> >>    written by Douglas Adams,
> >>    published by Pan Books, 1992
> >> ....................................................
> >>=20
> >
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> Hello.
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> Thank you for that.
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> That looks like it would lead to the solution.
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> In checking, the extension appears to be missing in my installation.
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> However;
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> In the Extension Manager, the link with the label "Get more extensions=20
> online, leads to http://extensions.libreoffice.org/getmore?cid=3D920794=20
> , which does not resolve.
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> In searching for "extensions for openoffice writer" - not as a=20
> contiguous string, but, as separate, individual words, I get results=20
> that include http://extensions.openoffice.org/ , which includes a=20
> dictionary for "US English Spell Checking Dictionary" , but appears to=20
> not include "UK English Spell Checking Dictionary".
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> Is a UK English spelling dictionary extension, available for Open Office=
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> 3.x ?

There is an extension available, an English dictionary based on the OED, at
http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/node/1890


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> Also, I note with interest, the extension that is listed on the web page=
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> at http://extensions.openoffice.org/ ;
> "Oracle PDF Import Extension", of which, the description appears to be=20
> quite impressive. I have used PDFedit, but have been obly able to=20
> perform minimal editing - changing a couple of words in a document, at a=
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> time.

As I understand it, the capabilities of the PDF import extension are limite=
d; it is intended to allow small cosmetic changes, much as one might make b=
y pasting a small slip of paper over an existing document and photocopying.=
  It does not have the ability to resolve the structure of the PDF document=
.  If I have to modify a PDF I use a dedicated tool, such as Adobe Acrobat;=
 I have needed to do this so rarely I have not looked for more recent publi=
c domain applications.

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> On the web page at http://extensions.openoffice.org/en/project/pdfimport=
=20
> , and on the web page at=20
> http://extensions.openoffice.org/en/node/874/releases ,=20
> the only Linux version for a 64 bit computer, for which provision is=20
> made, appears to be "Linux x86-64" .
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> I am running Debian Linux 6.0.x on an AMD64 architecture.
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> Is a version of the "Oracle PDF Import Extension" available for the=20
> AMD64 architecture?


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Rory O'Farrell <ofarrwrk@iol.ie>

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