Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: .docx can't be read
On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 02:26, Twayne wrote: > This might be a long shot, but I recently ran into a similar situation. It > turned out the user had sent it with windows Live Mail. When I tried out > Live Mail, it was all completely readable. > Guess which mail client I'll never use? > The only one that works with the documents that you've tested? -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.com -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@libreoffice.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
[libreoffice-users] Re: .docx can't be read
In news:4dc016d7.8060...@gmail.com, Francis Dollarhyde typed: > I recently received a .docx file as an attachment. > However, what I tried, LO wouldn't read it. It opened it > but gave a blank page. > The people who sent the file are complete computer > illiterate who follow MS$ like slaves. I assume it is the > latest Word or whatever MS$ uses as text application. It > can well be that the file is composed of pictures. When I > open the file with Hexedit I see content and the first 2 > bytes are hex 50 4B (PK) and byte 31 till 49 contains > "[Content_Types] xml, the byte beween ] and x is hex 2E. Can anybody > explain why LO can't read this file? > Help is much appreciated. > Joep > > I suspect the problem is word art. OpenOffice and > LibreOffice has no equivalent > Please send the file to the email > francis.f.dollarh...@gmail.com. > I will look at it in LibreOffice 64 Mint Linux, Openoffice, MS Office > 2007 This might be a long shot, but I recently ran into a similar situation. It turned out the user had sent it with windows Live Mail. When I tried out Live Mail, it was all completely readable. Guess which mail client I'll never use? HTH, Twayne` -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@libreoffice.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
[libreoffice-users] Re: .docx can't be read
On 05/05/2011 12:48 AM, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote: > On 05/05/2011 08:31, Dotan Cohen wrote: >> >> Are you suggesting that LO/OOo will not display images in a text box, >> but that is a valid MSO docx feature? > > Just tried it with a document I created in Word 2007. Looks like this > is bug in LO. It shows the text box but not the image in it. > Interestingly if I save the same document as a doc instead of docx then > it displays correctly... > I did the same; I have WinXP running in VMware & I opened in Word2003 w/docx converter. The file displays properly (after docx conversion). I then saved it as a standard .doc (file size goes from 689KB to 4,415KB) & that document opens in both OOo 3.3.0 and LO (3.4). The background is blank & you need to Format|Page|Background to see the actual png background. Now if I save that file (the .doc) to .odt, the file size goes from 4,415KB to 424KB & can be opened in OOo, LO with the now shaded background (and text of course) in place. Extracting all of the .docx shows a 'thumbnail.jpeg' of the page itself, plus two other images: image1.png (the background w/gradients) and image2.jpeg (looks like a grey slide background). -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@libreoffice.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
[libreoffice-users] Re: .docx can't be read
Could this be simply because LibO (and OOo) is not handling correctly windows OLE objects in the docx format? See my post on the previous page (on the nabble site for this topic) about Equations. -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/docx-can-t-be-read-tp2889232p2902529.html Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@libreoffice.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
[libreoffice-users] Re: .docx can't be read
On 05/02/2011 02:10 AM, Joep L. Blom wrote: > I recently received a .docx file as an attachment. > However, what I tried, LO wouldn't read it. It opened it but gave a > blank page. > The people who sent the file are complete computer illiterate who follow > MS$ like slaves. I assume it is the latest Word or whatever MS$ uses as > text application. It can well be that the file is composed of pictures. > When I open the file with Hexedit I see content and the first 2 bytes > are hex 50 4B (PK) and byte 31 till 49 contains "[Content_Types] xml, > the byte beween ] and x is hex 2E. > Can anybody explain why LO can't read this file? > Help is much appreciated. > Joep > Joep, if you'd like to send it to me directly I'll see if I can help. Gary -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@libreoffice.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: .docx can't be read
On 04/05/2011 12:54, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) There does seem to have been a recent change somewhere that is creating problems with docX. I don't seem to have many problems opening docx files I have created in LO 3.3.2 - the problem with THIS particular file, having opened it in MS Word 2007, would seem to be that the creators have inserted a Text Box and the ENTIRE document is inside this text box. Why on EARTH anyone would do that in a Word document I have NO IDEA. -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@libreoffice.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
[libreoffice-users] Re: .docx can't be read
Yes, Tom, there are new problems between build 3.4 and docx which didn't exist in 3.3.2 (interestingly this applies to the 3.4 betas of both LO and OOo) E.g. for a docx file containing an Equation, OOo simply ignores the equation while LO ignores the equation and everything after it. But it's not a Windows problems (you had to say that, didn't you? ;) ), it's the way LO/OOo store or interpret docx. Here is an interesting article from German magazine translated by a "competing" office suite http://softmaker.com/english/blog/?p=168 -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/docx-can-t-be-read-tp2889232p2901083.html Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@libreoffice.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: .docx can't be read
Hi :) There does seem to have been a recent change somewhere that is creating problems with docX. The normal problem of re-arranged pictures and things is inevitable even just using different versions of MSO but there have been a couple people in last couple of days that have sent me docX files that probably would have worked previously, or at least opened. Perhaps its a change with the Xml implementation in Windows or perhaps some recent fashion or who knows. It does seem to be specifically picture-related but seems to stop files from being opened. Hey, it's Windows, it could be anything. Regards from Tom :) From: plino To: users@libreoffice.org Sent: Wed, 4 May, 2011 12:08:20 Subject: [libreoffice-users] Re: .docx can't be read Dotan, "Well, allow me to retort" (as a famous movie character said) :) LibreOffice IS fully compatible in the sense that it will open any MS Office file. HOWEVER files created in MS Office may not look exactly the same (or some features, e.g. Equations not be loaded at all) in LO or OOo IMO the biggest problem is that files created in LO (and OOo) when saved in MS Office formats often do not look the same (although users are warned about this). And that is the biggest obstacle to that strong affirmation in the Ubuntu site (and probably the largest obstacle for a wider adoption). Just my 2 cents ;) -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/docx-can-t-be-read-tp2889232p2898307.html Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@libreoffice.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@libreoffice.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: .docx can't be read
On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 14:08, plino wrote: > Dotan, > > "Well, allow me to retort" (as a famous movie character said) :) > > LibreOffice IS fully compatible in the sense that it will open any MS Office > file. HOWEVER files created in MS Office may not look exactly the same (or > some features, e.g. Equations not be loaded at all) in LO or OOo > That is not fully compatible. That is partially compatible. Would you say that HTML 5 is fully compatible with HTML 1.0? Because it is, so long as one restricts his use of HTML 5 to only using tags. -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.com -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@libreoffice.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
[libreoffice-users] Re: .docx can't be read
Dotan, "Well, allow me to retort" (as a famous movie character said) :) LibreOffice IS fully compatible in the sense that it will open any MS Office file. HOWEVER files created in MS Office may not look exactly the same (or some features, e.g. Equations not be loaded at all) in LO or OOo IMO the biggest problem is that files created in LO (and OOo) when saved in MS Office formats often do not look the same (although users are warned about this). And that is the biggest obstacle to that strong affirmation in the Ubuntu site (and probably the largest obstacle for a wider adoption). Just my 2 cents ;) -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/docx-can-t-be-read-tp2889232p2898307.html Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@libreoffice.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
