Linux and Libre Office

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I'm using Windows 10 and I'm considering shifting over to Linux.  (Zorin, I was thinking.)  I've a program I've written that I absolutely need.  It 'runs' Word doing things like wordcounts and replacements.  I'm hoping Lazarus's write-once-compile-anywhere will see me through, but does anyone have any experience of this?  Are there equivalent 'magic words' for Libre Office automation?  Thanks in advance.

[Dzandaa]

Hi,

I'm using Linux Mint and Lazarus and most of my programs written in Windows 10
runs without problem on Linux, Sometimes I have to change the Layout or Fonts, but that's all.
If you don't use Direct X, that's O.K.

For LibreOffice Writer, there's a word counter in Tools->Wordcount and a search/replace function in Edit.

But you can try it first in Windows 10 to test its features.

Happy New year.

B->

[Thaddy]

Look here:
https://wiki.freepascal.org/Office_Automation

Using the Pascal UNO bridge (OpenOffice/LibreOffice) works on Linux too.
The pure COM solution also works with Wine.
You can also go through the Python bindings.

The screenshot is using the UNO bridge directly for LibreOffice.
I can add the full example if you want, but it is trivial.

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So, it sounds like this is a 'go' but maybe I should install Linux Mint.