Archive for the ‘etherpad’ Category

  • Always show chat in Etherpad Lite

    Date: 2012.01.29 | Category: etherpad | Response: 3

    There is a new feature in Etherpad Lite that allows the chat to always be set to the school.

    A user can change it by passing a parameter or you can set it at hte server level.

    To set it at the server level edit /static/custom/pad.js

    Add

    chat.stickToScreen(true);

    To the costumStart function.

    Job done :) Hit f5 and admire your awesomeness.

  • A Short video about Etherpad

    Date: 2012.01.02 | Category: etherpad | Response: 0

  • iEtherpad.com Update

    Date: 2011.12.05 | Category: etherpad, primarypad | Response: 0

    So you may have noticed that iEtherpad.com has been down for a week+ and that there has been no update from the site owner.

    The owner of the site is called “Prasanna Sankaranarayanan” and is ignoring emails from myself, his users and the Etherpad foundation.

    Alarm bells rang over 6 months ago at the Etherpad foundation when Prasanna refused to contribute any of his source to the Etherpad project and did not place an SLA or any legal documentation on the website. Due to this iEtherpad.com was not included in the public sites section of Etherpad.org

    So who recommended iEtherpad.com?
    A bunch of people, and I told them not to but I was obviously biased but mheh. What can I do if people don’t listen? Now I’m recieving emails from people saying they have lost their work.. Three things here:

    1. Your work was not covered by an SLA
    2. You should have had your work backed up
    3. If you want to an SLA covered Etherpad service see PrimaryPad

    So what’s going on with your data?
    You have probably lost it, but go knock on Hawthorne Labs inbox. Hawthorne Labs is a company Prasanna founded and if they run that company the same way they have run iEtherpad.com then they are bound to have some sad customers and probably an inbox full of complaints and/or law suits.

    Make a stand people also be aware that you should be saving local copies of your work and remember that if there is no SLA in place the company doesn’t have to help you.

  • Using Abiword with Etherpad on Windows

    Date: 2011.12.04 | Category: etherpad | Response: 0

    Step 1. Download and install Abiword for Windows

    Step 2. Download and install Notepad++

    Step 3. Download and extract Etherpad

    Step 4. Enter the Etherpad folder, right click settings.json – Edit the file in Notepad++

    Step 5. Find the line

    abiword : null

    Step 6. Change this line to:

    "abiword" : "C:\\Program Files (x86)\\AbiWord\\bin\\AbiWord.exe"

    Step 7. Run Etherpad.

  • Etherpad Lite .doc/.pdf import/export

    Date: 2011.11.22 | Category: etherpad | Response: 2

    So you have installed etherpad lite and you want to add support for importing and export pdf and .doc files?   It’s easy.

    Drop to shell and type

    apt-get install abiword

    Next open up your settings.json and change:

    "abiword" : null,

    to 

    "abiword" : "/usr/bin/abiword",

    See this as a main reference document

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