Group: OpenOfficeExtensions/List
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Calc2LaTeX | A macro for converting tables. It makes making tables on LaTeX very easy. | Public Domain |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
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.
| Name | Description | Copyright status/License | Freedom issues |
|---|---|---|---|
| ExtensionName | <extension description> | <copyright and licensing info goes here> | <describe here the freedom issues of this extension> |
| .riess Date Browser | Date Browser | No copyright stated. License is here. | License is unclear about modification & redistribution. It does say "reselling" is not allowed. Contacting the author. |
| eFax | Extension for using eFax from within OpenOffice | Sun Microsystems | License states that you may not copy, modify or distribute the software. |
