[libreoffice-users] Re: LWP documents

On 01/30/2012 02:11 PM, Gregory Forster wrote:
> On 1/28/2012 1:10 AM, Jay Lozier wrote:
...
> > Can you post the file on nabble? A brief check indicates that *.lwp 
> > files should open in LO/OOo.
> I wasn't quite sure how to navigate nabble. I'm not talking of one file, 
> I'm talking of hundreds and hundreds of Lotus WordPro documents.  My 
> client's 3rd Lotus WordPro installation floppy disk corrupted, so he 
> cannot install his Lotus WordPro.  However, he wants to be able to 
> access his Lotus WordPro documents.  I understood by the advertising on 
> the LibreOffice web site that LibreOffice could read Lotus WordPro 
> documents, that it was a "new feature" for 3.4.5 It was also posted as a 
> "new feature" for3.3 I was just at the LibreOffice web site and since my 
> posting of this question, now the ability to read Lotus WordPro 
> documents is no longer there for 3.4.5, as well as being able to read 
> other types of documents.  However, under the new features of 3.3 IS the 
> ability to read Lotus WordPro documents.  So I downloaded the provided 
> sample.  LibreOffice read that sample fine, but still won't read true 
> LWP documents. I used 3.3 and downloaded and installed 3.4.5

I've no problem opening most lwp files in 3.3.3, 3.4.5, 3.5RC2 (linux).
However when I examine the files in a hex editor I see that they are
LWP7 versions. Samples that I tried (all work):

- Maps & Scales
<http://www.dkeith.clara.co.uk/maths/index.htm#lwp>
[note grapics show up only as blank frames, but text is fine]

- Networktest.lwp
<http://code.google.com/p/lwpfilter/issues/detail?id=4#c3>

Attachment 52242 in:
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=41702
[Unteress_test.lwp]
only opens as a blank page & perhaps this is what you are experiencing.
However when I look at the file in the hex editor, it is significantly
different than the LWP7 files tested above. It is missing the LWP7 header:

0000000: 576f 7264 5072 6f00 0000 0000 0000 0000  WordPro.........
0000010: 4c57 5037 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000  LWP7............
0000020: 0000 ffff ffff 0000 0000 2e00 0000 0009  ................
0000030: 1100 9e14 0107 0f00 2c0e 1f3c 0100 eb1c  ........,..<....
0000040: 0000 1800 1600 576f 7264 2050 726f 2054  ......Word Pro T
0000050: 6578 7420 4669 6c65 2f44 4642 8900 9401  ext File/DFB....

and instead shows:

0000000: 576f 7264 5072 6f0d fb00 0000 0000 0000  WordPro.........
0000010: 0005 985c 8172 0300 40cc c1bf ffbd f950  ...\.r..@......P
0000020: 9989 030a 00bc 1ad8 4e02 007a dcb4 d111  ........N..z....
0000030: 0000 0600 1600 5c79 2387 0c08 2872 de80  ......\y#...(r..
0000040: a052 060f 1d10 46d2 b029 f382 8811 214f  .R....F..)....!O

So is it possible that your clients files are too old?


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