Re: [libreoffice-users] Document 'corrupt' for LibreOffice, opens fine with other OOo-based software

Eric Brunel wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> We are trying to generate a document in Open Document 
> Format and we're having a problem with the latest Mac 
> version of LibreOffice (3.5.4.2): it says the document is 
> corrupt when other OOo-based software open it correctly 
> (namely IBM / Lotus Symphony 3.0.0 FP2 and OOo itself 
> version 3.1.1, all on the Mac). The 'repair' option is 
> available and actually opens the document correctly, but 
> we would prefer to have a usable document right away and 
> not force people to repair it after each generation…
>
> Here is how we generate the document: we actually use an 
> existing ODF document as some kind of template, unzip it, 
> extract all its contents and replace the content.xml file 
> by one we generate ourselves. One of the generated 
> documents causing the problem is attached.
>
> So if anyone could have a look and tell us what we are 
> doing wrong. Or even better, if there's a way to make 
> LibreOffice tell us what's actually wrong in the document, 
> that would be great.
>
> Thanks a lot.
> --
> - Eric Brunel <eric.brunel@pragmadev.com> -
> PragmaDev : Real Time Software Development Tools - 
> http://www.pragmadev.com
     I did some testing on the document you created. First 
I downloaded the file, created a copy, and renamed the copy 
from .odt to .zip (doctext.zip). Then I opened the 
downloaded file with LO allowing it to repair the file. Then 
I saved it (doctext(repaired).odt, created a copy of it, and 
renamed it from .odt to .zip. I also opened the two zipped 
files next to each other.
     My findings:

                                    doctext.zip            
            doctext(repaired).zip
Configurations2                                                        
0 bytes
META-INF                       2.0kB        
                          1.2 kB
Pictures                         767 bytes    
                        767 bytes
Thumbnails                                                   
            2.3 kB
content.xml                   5.0 kB        
                         4.8 kB
manifest.rdf            
                                                  899 bytes
meta.xml                      1.1 kB        
                          1.1 kB
mimetype                    39 bytes    
                            39 bytes
settings.xml                 6.8 kB        
                            9.0 kB
styles.xml                    14.3 kB        
                          15.0 kB

     I will let others draw their own conclusions as to 
what this means.
     Then again, I have some questions and comments. Why 
are you creating a document by only changing the content.xml 
file? From the above information, clearly other files needed 
to be changed as well. And as Andreas pointed out, LO will 
report the error regardless of the OS used on a computer.
     Will creating a template with the layout you want work 
just as well or better? It can be used to open a new 
document. Then you can enter or copy material into the new 
document. When you save this, LO will update all the files 
and folders within the ODT file.

--Dan

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