Re: [xwiki-users] xe 2.2.4: regression or operator error in OpenOffice server?

On further investigation, the issues I'm having with the Xwiki openoffice importer in Fedora12 and OpenOffice 3.1.1 are "operator error." Or rather, since the last time I used the openoffice converter in Xwiki, an additional package must be installed. Without it, the '-headless' argument for openoffice server is ignored and the "Can't open display" error is emitted by the openoffice server. Name : openoffice.org-headless Arch : x86_64 Epoch : 1 Version : 3.1.1 Release : 19.28.fc12 Size : 1.9 M Repo : installed Summary : OpenOffice.org Headless plugin URL : http://www.openoffice.org/ License : LGPLv3 and LGPLv2+ and MPLv1.1 and BSD Description: A plugin for OpenOffice.org that enables it to function without : X server. It implements the -headless command line option and : allows OpenOffice.org to be used as a backend server for e.g. : document conversion. Without this package, starting an "externally managed" OOo instance gives error "/usr/lib64/openoffice.org3/program/soffice.bin X11 error: Can't open display" -- which was the hint I needed to figure out that this additional package was needed. With Xwiki's default "internally managed" OOo instance, missing this package produces an unhelpful error message: "org.xwiki.officeimporter.openoffice.OpenOfficeManagerException: Error while connecting / starting openoffice" . Once 'openoffice.org-headless' was installed, I launched the 'internally managed' openoffice server from the root wiki and ran the openoffice importer from a non-root wiki in the multiple wiki (virtual) setup. Also, the new openoffice importer seems to work much better -- some documents that previously had problems with image imports and incorrect scaling, now display correctly. Niels http://nielsmayer.com