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|Extension for Writer. It can make colorful text, draw a few simple shapes and Tux, change brightness of text, make anagrams, make inversed text, uneven text, remapped text.
 
|Extension for Writer. It can make colorful text, draw a few simple shapes and Tux, change brightness of text, make anagrams, make inversed text, uneven text, remapped text.
 
|GPLv3
 
|GPLv3
|?
 
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==Problematic extensions==
 
 
With the purpose of fostering the development of fully-free alternatives, here is a list of the OpenOffice extensions that present some issue related to software freedom. This list can also serve as a resource for trying to fix the freedom issues of these extensions.
 
 
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|[http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/en/project/... ExtensionName]
 
|<extension description>
 
|<copyright and licensing info goes here>
 
|<describe here the freedom issues of this extension>
 
|<reviewed version info here>
 
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|[http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/en/project/RiessDateBrowser .riess Date Browser]
 
|Date Browser
 
|No copyright stated. [http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/en/project/license/1343 License is here.]
 
|License is unclear about modification & redistribution. It does say "reselling" is not allowed. Contacting the author.
 
|?
 
|-
 
|[http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/en/project/efax eFax]
 
|Extension for using eFax from within OpenOffice
 
|Sun Microsystems
 
|License states that you may not copy, modify or distribute the software.
 
 
|?
 
|?
 
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Revision as of 02:36, 15 May 2010

The official OpenOffice.org extensions repository offers many addons to extend OpenOffice.org with additional features.

While OpenOffice.org is free software, it has a policy of also listing proprietary extensions in with the free software ones.

This is the start of an all-free-software list of extensions for OpenOffice.org. Please see Group:OpenOfficeExtensions for more information about the listing, how use it, and how to contribute.

Extensions are listed alphabetically.

Name Description License Version of the extension when it was reviewed
ExtensionName <description goes here> <licensing info goes here> <reviewed version info here>
Calc2LaTeX A macro for converting tables. It makes making tables on LaTeX very easy. Public Domain 0.2.4
ca_hyph Catalan hyphenation patterns for OpenOffice.org / Diccionari català de partició de mots per a OpenOffice.org

(Note: Lacks a copy of the license in the package.)

GPLv3 0.9.3
Compose Special Characters Extension for Writer and Calc. It lets you type two or three characters and use a keyboard shortcut to convert them into a single accented or special character. LGPLv2.1 ?
FastMailMerge Improved Mail Merge functionality. (contains a copy of LGPLv3 , not v2.1) LGPLv2.1+ 1.1.2
Pagination A little macro that adds a 'Insert / Page number...' dialog to writer. It eases the way you can add page numbers to a document. GPLv3 ?
Sun PDF Importer The PDF Import Extension allows you to import and modify PDF documents. Best results with 100% layout accuracy can be achieved with the "PDF/ODF hybrid file" format, which this extension also enables. A hybrid PDF/ODF file is a PDF file that contains an embedded ODF source file. Hybrid PDF/ODF files will be opened in OpenOffice.org as an ODF file without any layout changes. LGPLv3 ?
Sun Presentation Minimizer The Sun Presentation Minimizer is used to reduce the file size of the current presentation. Images will be compressed, and data that is no longer needed will be removed. LGPLv3 ?
Text Effects Extension for Writer. It can make colorful text, draw a few simple shapes and Tux, change brightness of text, make anagrams, make inversed text, uneven text, remapped text. GPLv3 ?