{"id":50,"date":"2008-11-16T10:27:39","date_gmt":"2008-11-16T00:27:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.plutext.org\/blog\/?p=50"},"modified":"2008-11-16T11:20:01","modified_gmt":"2008-11-16T01:20:01","slug":"collaborate-on-a-word-doc-with-docx4all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.docx4java.org\/blog\/2008\/11\/collaborate-on-a-word-doc-with-docx4all\/","title":{"rendered":"collaborate on a Word doc with docx4all"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>docx4all has now reached the point where you can collaborate happily with a Word user, both working on the document at the same time.<\/p>\n<p>This screencast shows a docx4all user and a Word user doing that:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/screencasts\/docx4all-plays_nicely2.flv\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/screencasts\/docx4all-plays_nicely.png\" alt=\"Screencast\" style=\"max-width:100%;height:auto\" \/><\/a><br \/><small>Flash (.flv) screencast; download to play it in VLC or similar.<\/small><\/p>\n<p>docx4all will work on any platform if you have Java 6 installed &#8211; including Windows, OSX, or Linux.<\/p>\n<p>You can try collaborating now, in your web browser by <a href=\"\/trac\/docx4all\/wiki\/CollaborationApplet\">clicking here (warning: ~10 MB)<\/a>.\u00a0 The download is of course one-time.\u00a0 Next time, it will start quicker.<\/p>\n<p>That link takes you to the docx4all applet, which does collaboration in your web browser.<\/p>\n<p>You can also run docx4all as a <a href=\"\/trac\/docx4all\/wiki\/CollaborationApplication\">desktop application<\/a> &#8211; the functionality is identical.<\/p>\n<p>The nice thing about the docx4all experience is that with just one-click you can be collaborating. Ok, a couple of clicks &#8211; one to start docx4all, and another to do File &gt; Open.<\/p>\n<p>Because all changes are versioned, from the Plutext menu you can see:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> a history of all the changes which have been made to a given content control<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>a version of the document showing the most recent change to each paragraph<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>docx4all has now reached the point where you can collaborate happily with a Word user, both working on the document at the same time. This screencast shows a docx4all user and a Word user doing that: docx4all will work on any platform if you have Java 6 installed &#8211; including Windows, OSX, or Linux. You [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[97,10],"tags":[64,94],"class_list":["post-50","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-docx","category-docx4all","tag-collaboration-in-word","tag-docx4all"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.docx4java.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.docx4java.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.docx4java.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.docx4java.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.docx4java.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.docx4java.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.docx4java.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.docx4java.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.docx4java.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}