Friday, March 26, 2010

Rupantar: OpenOffice Writer extension installation and uses

Please reply to this post if you have any issues regarding installation of the Rupantar OpenOffice extention .
Here are some problems you may face while installing the Rupantar in OpenOfice.You may come across these while installing other extensions also. These are not specific to Rupantar.

1] For error:
(com.sun.star.registry.CannotRegisterImplementationException) { { Message = "", Context = (com.sun.star.uno.XInterface) @0 } } } }

>>>> Please install 'openoffice.org-java-common' package from Synaptic manager [specific to Linux machines]

2] For error: Unable to load java while installing the extension

>>>> Please check that your machine has java 6 or above, installed. If you have it and you are still facing the same problem, now you need to mention path of the JRE to be used, in OpenOffice. Please do it this way:

* Go to Openoffice Writer: Tools --->Options --->OpenOffice.org ----->java.
* Now check 'use a Java runtime environment' and if you see one/more JREs there, select it/one of them.
* click 'OK'. You may try installing the extension now.

If you don't see any JRE in the window, click 'Add' and select the JRE you want to use from the file browser window.


3] If your OOo starts not responding while you are trying the extension, please check your installed JAVA. To run the extension properly you need "Sun Java" and not the "Free software foundation Java". Check this in Tools --->Options --->OpenOffice.org ----->java; and make sure that, the Java being used is Sun Java.

Please feel free to suggest/comment/query!

Prakash B. Pimpale
Xlit Team

Monday, March 8, 2010

Open Source Seminar Series: NLTK and GNU build system (20th March 2010)

What:
CDAC Mumbai, Kharghar centre, has been conducting a series of lecture demos to introduce you to the wide range of high quality software available in open source. This months seminars include:

1] NLTK - NLTK [Natural Language Processing Toolkit] is a complete Open Source suite of Python modules, linguistic data and documentation for research and development in Natural Language Processing. It provides utilities for many NLP tasks like chunking, stemming and parsing to name a few. It is a useful tool for students, professionals and researchers interested in Natural Language Processing and is widely used by NLP community all over the world.

and

2] GNU Build System - The GNU build system provides an environment to a computer programmer that helps them make their software/packages portable across platforms (at least for Unix-like operating systems). It also makes the build process easier for the user, allowing him/her to use just a small set of commands to build the software/package from its source code and install it.


When: Saturday,  20th March 2010.  09:30 am to 12:30 pm

Where: CDAC, NEAR BHARTI VIDYAPEETH, KHARGHAR,  NAVI MUMBAI.


Last date to register: March 17th, 2010


Registration fee: Rs. 200/- per participant. To register, please mail to the address below, giving your name, institution, contact address (including email and phone), and a local cheque/ DD for the fee.

Contact:

Course Administration, CDAC (formerly NCST),
Raintree Marg, Near Bharati Vidyapeeth Engg. College,
Opp. Kharghar Railway Station,
Sector 7, CBD Belapur, Navi Mumbai 400614, India.
(5 minutes walk from Kharghar Railway station.)

Telephone: +91-22-27565303 Telefax: +91-22-27560004

Website: http://ossrc.org.in  Email: course_kh@cdacmumbai.in