Hi On Wed, 2011-05-04 at 16:15 +1200, Steve Edmonds wrote:
> > On 2011-05-04 02:53, Francis Dollarhyde 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 > > > > 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 > > > I have the same problem, a .docx with some text and what is probably > some diagrams. It is not understanable in LO and I have had to request a > .doc or PDF. > I suspect it is MS trying to be non-compatible as earlier .docx were not > so bad. As more organisations migrate to MO 2010 and they become less > standard interoperability with LO may disappear altogether. > steve > I have seen problems with macros not allowing a correct translation. Formatted text seems to correctly translate. I have not tried embedded graphics. -- Jay Lozier jsloz...@gmail.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
