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On 05/04/2011 02:03 AM, planas wrote:
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.Dollarhyde@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

When MSO forced their way and had their .docx [XML] file format, and the other "x" formats, become some sort of world standard, they would not provide the documentation to the ISO standards committee. Then when that committee pushed and started to edit that format to make it easier to use, for that standard, MS decided that they would not comply to that standard.

Also, I have been told that if you create a complex .docx file with the latest MS Word package, it will not open properly with Word 2007. MS seems not to want interoperability between MSO releases. They want to force users to keep buying newer and newer versions to be able to read the newest format versions.

I use to deal with MSO but no longer. THEY claim to have included the ODF into their package, since it was the world standard, but messed it up so it wold not work properly. MSO wants to rule how you do office work, and do not like the fact that some upstarts are going against their dictatorship.

Well it is in the middle of the night for me, so my above text might not say what I wanted correctly.

The big thing is that I always tell my MSO users to use .doc and .xlt formats if they want others to be able to use them. That way anyone with a computer that can use Win XP and newer and bought a copy of MSO when they bought their system can sue those files. Also, the growing user base for OOo and LibreOffice can use it as well. Too many companies are dumping MSO for OOo and LO to not make sure that the files that are being shared are usable to all others.


I have seen problems with macros not allowing a correct translation.
Formatted text seems to correctly translate. I have not tried embedded
graphics.


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