ODF Viewer

posted on May 16th, 2012, 6:25 am

hey guys on a new system as old system decided to die and i cant remember what programme i used for opening the odf's, tried everything i have in office and even a few online programmes that are mean to open odf's but no joy, what does everyone else use for opening and editing the odf's?

thanx mark

posted on May 16th, 2012, 6:48 am

As they're just text files any simple text editor will do. If you want simple, Notepad will work. If you want something a little better there's Notepad++ (Google it if you're not familiar with it). I wouldn't use Word or a word processor though; they aren't really designed for code type things.

posted on May 16th, 2012, 8:02 am

if you're talking about ms office, then that should have opened any fleetops odf without problem, the odfs (at least the small sample i tested) are just ansi (win 1252) text files, word shouldn't even ask you to deal with character encoding.

but as atlantis says, don't use word for it, use notepad/notepad++

remember that you'll have to extract the odfs first if they are contained in odf.fpq, only fpqedit.exe can handle the fpq archive.

posted on May 20th, 2012, 9:08 am

but as atlantis says, don't use word for it, use notepad/notepad++

Atlantis didn't say anything yet. :-P

But yeah, Notepad. I seem to recall someone was working on an ODF helper plugin for Notepad++, but not sure if that ever got finished. Either way, Notepad is the easiest option. :-)

posted on May 20th, 2012, 10:13 am

gaah too many people called atlantis here. he's atlantisbase but your avatar actually has a base while his has a ship, you can't explain that.

posted on May 21st, 2012, 5:04 am

MUAHAHA.   

posted on June 2nd, 2012, 7:06 pm

I'm using Notepad to edit the ODF files from ST Armada 2 or fleet Ops :-)