Re: [libreoffice-users] LibreOffice DOES NOT open .docx files

Nuno J. Silva wrote:
> On 2011-07-01, mazallen wrote:
>
> > When I downloaded LibreOffice 3.3.3 I was led to believe that "[LibreOffice]
> > Writer easily reads Microsoft Word documents, and you can also save your
> > work in Microsoft Word format, for sending to people still locked into
> > Microsoft products" and that "/LibreOffice can also open .docx files created
> > with Microsoft Office 2007 for Windows or Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac OS
> > X/."  This is not the case: I converted a pdf file to docx (on Adobe's
> > website) but LibreOffice crashes every time I try to open it -- can anyone
> > help (or is this merely a case of false advertisement on the part of
> > LibreOffice)?  
>
> LibreOffice *does* have support for .docx, there's no false
> advertisement here.
>
> Although this support is not complete, this just means some features
> won't be imported/recognized. It should definitely *not* crash.
>
> You probably hit some bug. Does it happen only with that docx? Or
> converting other pdf also generates a .docx that crashes LibO?
>
> To find out exactly what's happening, it'd be useful to have access to a
> sample .docx file that crashes LibO. 
>
>
> I confirm this one opens fine in 3.3.3, does it crash there?:
> http://tinyurl.com/libo-docx-sample
>
>
> Also, is this the conversion service you used?
>
> https://www.acrobat.com/exportpdf/en/convert-pdf-to-word.html
>
> Sadly it is paid, so I can't even generate a docx just to test.
I just opened this successfully on LibreOffice 3.3.3.1 on openSUSE 11.4

Russ

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