Art of Solving

OpenOffice.org 2.3 should be released in a week or so and I had a quick look at its release candidate 2.

Here are the new features that should be most interesting for JODConverter users

• Conversions to WikiMedia wiki format for word processor documents
• The bug in OOo 2.2/2.2.1 that caused stream-based conversions to fail with Word, Excel and other input formats has been fixed
• Headless mode on Unix/Linux no longer requires an X server (no need to use Xvfb any more!)

I am especially glad to see that last one, "true" headless support, both because it makes it much simpler to run OOo as a service on Linux and because it shows that the OpenOffice.org team are supportive of applications such as JODConverter that use OOo programmatically. Many thanks to Caolan McNamara for implementing this new feature, as described in his own blog.