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Graphite in OpenOffice.org

Tim Eves, 2010-04-08

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OpenOffice beta with Graphite

Overview

This is a beta release of the Graphite integration into OpenOffice.org. Graphite support is integrated at the graphics system layer, and so is available to the entire suite of applications. This enables all the applications in the suite to render and edit text displayed in Graphite fonts. The demo documents available below demonstrate Writer using Graphite fonts though we have also used versions of this software to display presentations in non-Roman scripts.

Features

• All OpenOffice.org applications have integration with Graphite, as support has been added as a component of OpenOffice's complex text rendering subsystem.
• Enables the display and input of text using any Graphite font.
• The UI can be set to display in any Graphite font.
• Exports documents using Graphite fonts to PDF.
• Prints documents using Graphite fonts.
• Font features are accessible via careful font naming

Downloads

Windows

OOo 3.0.0 RC1 (English)

Release candidate 1:

OpenOffice Graphite 3.0.0 Win32/Intel Installer (English) Roy Dalpra, 2008-10-24 Download "OOo_3.0.0_080905_Win32Intel_install.exe", Windows application, 125MB [4504 downloads]

md5Sum = e51f02ed08674e2814cee4e2543359e2

Although some testing has been done on Vista and XP, not all Pcs have the same libraries. On some PCs although this version of OpenOffice installs correctly, it may not be possible to run the product. This is normaly due to missing libraries or subsytems. Should you have a problem, please install the  MSVC8 runtime. If you continue to have a problem then install  .Net 2.

OOo 3.0.0 dev, non-English versions

The following are latest developer versions.

French

OpenOffice Graphite 3.0.0 Win32/Intel Installer (French) Roy Dalpra, 2009-05-01 Download "OOo_3.0.0_090216_Win32Intel_install_fr.exe", Windows application, 122MB [3639 downloads]

Spanish

OpenOffice Graphite 3.0.0 Win32/Intel Installer (Spanish) Sharon Correll, 2009-05-07 Download "OOo_3.0.0_090216_Win32Intel_install_es.exe", Windows application, 123MB [3718 downloads]

Simplified Chinese

OpenOffice Graphite DEV300_m41 Simplified Chinese Win32/Intel Installer Roy Dalpra, 2009-03-04 Download "OOo_3.0.0_090216_Win32Intel_install_zh-CN.exe", Windows application, 120MB [3591 downloads]

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OOo 3.1.0 Alpha

OpenOffice Graphite 3.1.0 Win32/Intel Installer ALPHA Roy Dalpra, 2009-01-07 Download "OOo_3.1.0_081217_Win32Intel_install.exe", Windows application, 126MB [3687 downloads]

md5 sum = 6ba1fa760b1444ee3f08537408ceda75

OpenOffice 3.1 alpha test build with the latest graphite integration, fixes problems in right to left and fallback fonts. Please send feedback.

Older versions:

OpenOffice Graphite 2.4.0 Win32/Intel Installer Roy Dalpra, 2008-04-01 Download "OOo_2.4.0_080331_Win32Intel_install.exe", Windows application, 114MB [4026 downloads]

Download  Graphite OpenOffice 2.0.2 test version (89MB) from  http://www.thanlwinsoft.org/

Windows OpenOffice 2 with Graphite Martin Hosken, 2006-01-30 Download "oo2gr_win.exe", Windows application, 75MB [6629 downloads]

Linux

A patch package for OpenOffice 2.4.1 is available for Ubuntu Hardy (32-bit) from the  packages.sil.org repository. Install openoffice.org-sil-patch-hardy to add graphite support and uninstall the same package to revert back to the default version with no Graphite support.

Older versions:

Both of these have been built to have as few dependencies as possible, the RPM bundle should run on most RPM based distros (tested on SuSE 9.3) and the Debian bundle should work on most Debian based distros (tested on Ubuntu Breezy). They are self extracting archives containing the relevant package files:

SIL.OpenOffice 2.0.0 rpm bundle Tim Eves, 2005-11-02 Download "OOo_2.0_en-US_download_rpms.sh", Shell script (.sh), 95MB [6038 downloads]

SIL.OpenOffice 2.0.0 debian bundle Tim Eves, 2005-11-02 Download "OOo_2.0_en-US_download_debs.sh", Shell script (.sh), 101MB [5682 downloads]

Sample Documents

A document using Doulos SIL to show off feature support in OpenOffice Graphite.

Describes font features in OpenOffice Martin Hosken, 2008-08-29 Download "features.odt", OpenDocument Text, 33KB [4570 downloads]

Source code

The source code and basic build instructions can be found at the Building OpenOffice 2.0.0 from source with Graphite support page.

Graphite enabled fonts

In order to see the demo documents and get any benefit from this version of OpenOffice.org, you will need to install some of the Graphite enabled fonts. They can be downloaded from: Download Graphite Fonts

Linux Installation for older versions

sh Ooo_2.0_linux_install_en-US_rpms.sh 

or for Debian systems

sh Ooo_2.0_linux_install_en-US_debs.sh 

You will be asked where you want the package files to be extracted to, once SIL.OpenOffice.org is installed these files can safely be deleted. Then run your package manager (dpkg or rpm) to install SIL.OpenOffice.org.

Bug reporting

This being a beta release, means there will inevitably be bugs. If you discover a bug and you think it's Graphite related, we would like to hear from you. In order to assist us in tracking down and reproducing the bug it would be very helpful, if you are able, to include: a stack trace, the font files and documents used when you send your bug report. This will greatly increase the chance of finding and fixing the bug.
You can get a stack trace by running SIL.OpenOffice.org from the shell and triggering the bug.

An alternative to using this form is to report a bug via  Sourceforge

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