John Machin enlightened us with: > Hi, Sybren. I tried folloing your recipe on Windows with OOo 2.0 ... > > Minor problem: the executable is called soffice, not ooffice. > > Major problem: it crashed right at the start, somewhere in the maze > of dlls.
That's not nice. > Has anyone managed to get further than this on Windows (XP Pro, SP > 2)? Not me - I'm not using Windows. If anyone knows more about this, please post here or post a comment at http://www.stuvel.eu/archive/31/article-about-openofficeorg-and-python so that I can improve the article. Sybren -- Sybren Stüvel Stüvel IT - http://www.stuvel.eu/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list