inari comments on The ChatGPT desktop app bundles a full copy of LibreOffice

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[–] inari@piefed.zip [S] 13 points 1 month ago* (4 children)

I think they're used so agents can make changes to Word, Excel and PowerPoint files. It seems to be using the headless version of LibreOffice.

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[–] Zarobi@aussie.zone 11 points 1 month ago*

Yeah… I didn't want to include 430MB of bloat in my bundle to each end user though for one feature, so I did it the hard way instead: Manually editing document files using XPATH. Maybe I'm too old school, if everyone's shipping 1GB+ apps like it's nothing nowadays.

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[–] jacksilver@lemmy.world 1 point 1 month ago (2 children)

I didn't think LibreOffice supported the latest versions of office formats though, so wouldnt it potentially break existing files if used?

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