COSCUP 2014 2014/7/19 17:50-18:30 H3

1. Crossing Office
Applications
imacat
imacat@mail.imacat.idv.tw
2014/7/19

2. “Crossing Office Applications” is created by imacat (Yang Shih-Ching),
and licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.

3. imacat
● A member of the Apache OpenOffice Project
Management Committee
● An OpenOffice committer
● The system administrator of the OpenOffice
forum and Wiki
● A member of Women of Free and Open
Source Software (WoFOSS)
● A PyLadies Taiwan organizer

4. A brief review of the
OpenOffice Magic series

5. 2010 COSCUP
“OpenOffice.org UNO Magic—Where MS
Office Can’t”

6. “OpenOffice.org UNO Magic—Where MS
Office Can’t”

7. “OpenOffice.org UNO Magic—Where MS
Office Can’t”

8. “OpenOffice.org UNO Magic—Where MS
Office Can’t”

9. “OpenOffice.org UNO Magic—Where MS
Office Can’t”

10. With OpenOffice UNO API and Java JSP,
I created a mobile presentation controller,…

11. A Mobile Presentation Controller

12. …a quotation generator and a data grapher…

13. …to demonstrate the power of the
OpenOffice UNO Network API
on mobile devices

14. Mobile DeviceMobile Device
ServerServer
BrowserBrowser
Mobile Web Office Application
OpenOfficeOpenOffice
WriterWriter
CalcCalc
Impres
s
Impres
s
UNO
API
UNO
API
……
Mobile DeviceMobile Device
Mobile DeviceMobile Device
Mobile
Web
Application
Mobile
Web
Application
BrowserBrowser
BrowserBrowser
TCP/IP
Network
TCP/IP
Network

15. But, speaking of “Where MS Office Can’t”,
that is a little embarrassing.

16. Although MS Office does not have a
networked API,
it’s still possible
to create mobile web office applications
with VBA and COM.

17. 2011 COSCUP
“OpenOffice.org Magic Sandbox—The Colorful
Blank”
Poker Hand

18. I tried to use the OpenOffice UNO API…
for Fun!

19. 2012 OSDC
“OpenOffice UNO Application on Android”

20. Presentation Controller
for Android

21. I look for more fun!

22. 2012 COSCUP Lightning Talk
“Stop Motion Calc”

23. (demonstration)

24. I started to play with graphics, animations and
sound with OpenOffice UNO API.

25. 2013 OSDC
“Multimedia Fun with OpenOffice Calc -
Abusing OpenOffice UNO API”

26. (demonstration)

27. I even create real multimedia games
with OpenOffice UNO API!

28. But, the question is still in my mind…

29. Really, what is the thing
that OpenOffice can do
but MS Office can’t?

30. What's the difference
between OpenOffice and MS Office?

31. Good or evil?

32. Free or not free?

33. Come with your PC?

34. Cross platform or not?

35. From the developers' point of view,
there is a major difference:

36. One single application program
v.s.
Several application programs.

37. MS Office
Several Application Programs
Word
WINWORD.EXE
Word
WINWORD.EXE
Excel
EXCEL.EXE
Excel
EXCEL.EXE
PowerPoint
POWERPNT.EXE
PowerPoint
POWERPNT.EXE

38. MS Office
Several Application Programs
Word
WINWORD.EXE
Word
WINWORD.EXE
Excel
EXCEL.EXE
Excel
EXCEL.EXE
PowerPoint
POWERPNT.EXE
PowerPoint
POWERPNT.EXE

39. OpenOffice
One Single Program
OpenOffice
soffice.bin
OpenOffice
soffice.bin
Writer ImpressCalc
Impress Writer Calc

40. OpenOffice
One Single Program
OpenOffice
soffice.bin
OpenOffice
soffice.bin
Writer ImpressCalc
Impress Writer Calc

41. Macros, data and objects
can easily be used
across Office applications.

42. For example…
Example 1

43. Or another example…
Example 2

44. It's all as easy as it can be.

45. Get the presentation and example at
http://people.apache.org/~imacat/crossapp.zip

46. Thank you.
Any questions?