[vox-tech] web access of openoffice documents

Bill Kendrick vox-tech@lists.lugod.org
Tue, 10 Feb 2004 18:40:13 -0800


On Tue, Feb 10, 2004 at 03:58:38PM -0800, Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
> i'm teaching a few classes and keep my scores/averages in gnumeric
> spreadsheet (which i can convert to openoffice of course).  i want to
> have some kind of site where my students can log in using their SSN and
> perhaps a password and be able to look at how they're doing.

OpenOffice.org 1.1 has PDF export capabilities.  Maybe that'll work...?


> i'd rather not spend multi-hours doing that, so if there's an easy
> solution, that's great.  if not, i can live without it.
> 
> i'd also rather keep my stuff in spreadsheet format, not in a db. 
> 
> is it possible to read and parse openoffice files easily for web pages?

Export as tab-delim'd first? ;)

-bill!