Dicoo is an utility that transparently installs spelling, hyphenation and thesaurus dictionaries. Included in OpenOffice.org since the 1.1.2 version, it is accessible via the menu "File" - "AutoPilot" - "Install new dictionaries...".
The principle of this tool is to connect itself on mirrors in order to propose a list of dictionaries, available for a great number of languages (more than 50). Once your choice carried out, DicOOo downloads them and installs them automatically.
Main features
- License : LGPL
- Multi-platform : Windows, Linux, Mac, Solaris.
- Compatibility : compatible with all the versions of OpenOffice.org.
- Multilingue : the language of the graphic user interface can be changed "on-the-fly" into one of the 17 languages into which DicOOo has been translated.
- Installation methods : choose either an "administrator" installation (the dictionaries are accessible to all the users) or a "single-user" installation (available only for the current user) for example if he does not have the rights of writing in the configuration's files.
- Automatic update : with each new use, DicOOo checks for an update and offers you the opportunity to use it.
- Off-line installation mode :Packs may also be collected and installed without a connection to the Internet. The English lanaguage package is available here. Other language packs are available from the
Lingucomponent Project. A HowTo construct packs off-line is available in French only at this time.
You may also read the English tutorial in PDF or SXW written by Stéhane Purnelle.
Thanks
To all the Beta testers from the dev@fr.openoffice.org list, the translators from the various Native Language projects: Riccardo Losselli, Christian Markgraf, Rolf Meyer, Richard Holt, Kevin B.Hendricks, Stéphane Purnelle... – Thank you all !