Skip to main content

Using LibreOffice in a Web Browser

Try at your own risk, Per the wiki: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Using_LibreOffice_in_a_Web_Browser

TDF LibreOffice Community Blogs Pootle Moztrap ODFAuthors ownCloud Redmine Box Ask LibreOffice | Donate
Im-jabber.svg Note: this is an obsolete prototype
The new implementation LOOL is being developed here.
Gnome-document-open-recent.svg This page was marked as inactive and is retained for historical reference.
Either the page is no longer relevant or consensus on its purpose has become unclear. To revive discussion, seek broader input via a forum such as one of our mailing lists.

Beginning with Version 3.5 LibreOffice can be launched as a web server. This allows using LibreOffice online within a web browser. A short demonstration is available here.

Prerequisites

  • A Linux server
  • A recent version of gtk3. A backport for openSUSE 12.1 can be found here, but if you have all the current updates installed it should just work out of the box.
  • gtk3 with broadway support (for archlinux aur/gtk3-broadway)

Compiling LibreOffice

Since online support is not production ready yet, it is not included in the regular packages of LibreOffice 3.5. Therefore it's necessary to build LibreOffice from scratch. For information how to download the sources and compile them see here.
To ensure the required gtk3 backend is used, add --enable-gtk3 as an autogen.sh/configure option. For now it is recommended to add --without-java as well.

Running LibreOffice in server mode

After successfully building launch LibreOffice with the following commands:
$ cd install/program
$ export SAL_USE_VCLPLUGIN=gtk3
$ export GDK_BACKEND=broadway
$ ./soffice -writer
Now point your web browser to http://<servername>:8080 - if you're testing locally that'd be http://localhost:8080 of course.

Debug commands

  • Press '9' to turn on the debug bbox re-rendering to show what area is re-rendered as you type.
  • Press '0' to force-refresh the screen.
width="50px" Note: this is an obsolete prototype, the new implementation LOOL is being developed here. width="50px"

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Guiless?

Image
You actually can do a minimal windowing from the command line in Linux with dvtm. Dvtm is excellent for low end machines where graphics are not a priority. In the picture shown we have a working clock, SC a spreadsheet that you can easily export data to your favorite desktop spreadsheet such as Libreoffice, Links2 a web browser pointed to www.google.com, and finally nano a pretty decent basic text editor. I prefer vim, but nano has more of a user interface. Cheatsheet: `dvtm` is one simple, easy-to-use terminal multiplexer. Commonly used Options:     -v         prints version information to standard output, then exits.         -m <mod>   set default modifier at runtime.         [cmd...]   Execute cmd after dvtm is started. KeyBoard Shortcuts:     Mod    Each keybinding begins with Mod which defaults to ^g but can  be               changed in config.h or with the -m command line option.                       Mod-c  Create a new shell window.            Mod-x  Cl
Read more

Web.com and Network Solutions, the Walmart of the internet.

Web.com bought Network Solutions last month, and also has bought Register.com . Web.com picked up Network Solutions for $405M plus some stock. I have been using an e-commerce package form Network Solution for two years. I wouldn’t have noticed the buy out as the Network Solutions site has not changed. A couple of weeks ago I noticed that Network Solutions was offering some new products such as Gorilla Online Marketing . Soon after that we received a sales call about Gorilla Online Marketing from Network Solutions. When I returned the call the phone was answered by Register.com, I was confused at first but quickly found out about the buy outs. They seem like a good fit, they all target the same types of small to medium size businesses. Network Solution has always had great customer support in my opinion. Their sales people are a little irritating sometimes but they beat the heck out of GoDaddy.com and Comodo.com and you can’t beat the prices. If you can beat the prices ask them for a
Read more

MSOffice vs Libreoffice

Image
From https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Feature_Comparison:_LibreOffice_-_Microsoft_Office Contents 1 Introduction 2 General office suite: LibreOffice vs. Microsoft Office 3 Word processors: LibreOffice Writer vs. Microsoft Word 4 Spreadsheet applications: LibreOffice Calc vs. Microsoft Excel 5 Presentation software: LibreOffice Impress vs. Microsoft Powerpoint 6 Database program: LibreOffice Base vs. Microsoft Access 7 Extensions: LibreOffice extensions adding outstanding features to LibreOffice 8 See also Introduction This page compares the features of LibreOffice 5.0.0 ( download ) and Microsoft Office 2013 . It separates major and minor feature differences and also includes notes on LibreOffice extensions. The comparison highlights differences and therefore does not display any features which are present in both office suites. The feature comparison table is continuously being updated and is work in progress It is a compilation by users and no
Read more