How to install Mobile Device Filters for Writer2Latex?

[Jens-Erik]

Hello,

I'd like to install Writer2Latex <http://www.hj-gym.dk/~hj/writer2latex/>, a converter from OOo/Neooffice files to Latex

One prerequisite is:

"You must have the Mobile Device Filters installed. If you didn't install these during installation (it's not part of a standard installation!), you can run OOo setup, choose Modify and add the filters. This will install a framework for Java based filters in OOo (known as xmerge), which is also used by Writer2LaTeX (despite the fact that it has nothing to do with mobile devices)."

How can I do this in Neooffice (or OOo for X on Mac), if at all? Neither OOo Mac for X nor Neooffice have this kind of installer like Linux (and probably Solaris) and Windows do.

Jens

[pluby]

Since Neo/J includes OOo's multi-user installation, I believe that the xmerge stuff is automatically included in all Neo/J installations.

Patrick

[jjmckenzie51]

[Jens-Erik]

Yes, you both are right, there is a NeoOfficeJ.app/Contents/MacOS/classes/xmerge.jar.

So probably it must be another reason why this Writer2Latex doesn't work. I intalled it according to the instructions. Now there are some export type items when you choose the "Export" menu, but then you get an I/O error when exporting as XHTML+MathML and an empty file if you export as Latex.

I'd appreciate any hints to get this working. Has anybody tried it? Anyway, it works as a Java standalone program.

I really like this filter because you can write scientific documents in OOo or NeoOffice without being afraid of having to reformat the whole document in case you see that you need the capabilities of Latex.

Jens

[sardisson]

Could it be the Java version mismatch, like with the JDBC connector?

I'm just starting to read the manual and I see it requires JVM 1.4 or 1.5 (in fact, it seems to say you must have a Sun JVM, not a third-party one)....

Smokey

[Jens-Erik]

I don't think so, because the standalone command line version of writer2latex works on my Mac (OS X 10.3.9).

$ java -version
java version "1.4.2_05"
Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build 1.4.2_05-141.4)
Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 1.4.2-38, mixed mode)

[OPENSTEP]

The version you get of java on the command-line has no bearing on the JVM actually used by Neo/J. Neo/J explicitly embeds a 1.3.1 VM, so if it does require 1.4 then you're out of luck.

ed

[pluby]

...and if you want to try running your Java program with Java 1.3.1 to verify that it works with Java 1.3.1, use the following command instead of "java":

[jjmckenzie51]

[Jens-Erik]

I tried the filters with OOo 1.4.1 for X on Mac. They work after changing the Java version from 1.3 to 1.4.2 with program/jvmsetup. But it wasn't so easy to find out what directory to choose exactly because the displayed 1.3 path is cut off at the end: /System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/(...?). After some trying I found the correct one (but I don't remember exactly which one it was).

Before, there was the same problem like with NeoO/J 1.1, i. e. emtpy files. So probably it will work with NeoO/J 1.2.

So if I understand well, the Java version used for filters etc. can't be changed in NO because it uses Java for its user interface with an embedded VM, and that must be the same like for filters or other user code.

Jens

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