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

On 4 juin 12, at 14:58, Dan Lewis wrote:
> 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.

This is exactly what I've been doing to try to create a correct  
document myself. The problem is, I'm not really sure what parts of the  
document I should change to prevent it from being reported as corrupt.  
Some information in these files do not look important at all, or not  
related to the actual contents of the document. It seems that there is  
some internal consistency problem between the files, but since LO  
doesn't say anything else than 'the document is corrupt', it's very  
hard to figure out what's happening here.

>     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.

Yes, we've been working on the matter a bit further and figured out  
that too: it seems the latest versions of all OOo-based software we  
could test on any platform do report the document as corrupt. So I was  
hoping to figure out what had changed between the versions that open  
it without problem and the current ones to know what to do to generate  
it correctly.

>     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.

Well, the problem is, as I said in my original post, the document is  
generated, not created by hand. We have a description of the document  
contents in an external source, and we are using an existing ODF  
document only to get the styles from it. So it did seem to be enough  
to get all the files from the existing ODF document, replace the  
contents.xml in it by the one we generate, and zip back everything to  
a new ODF file. And it used to work, but it doesn't anymore… But  
basically, we would like to be able to generate the document without  
running LO at all. With the method we're using, it doesn't even need  
to be installed, and that's even better…

And by the way, if we open the existing ODF file (not the generated  
one), everything works fine. LO doesn't say it's corrupt and opens it  
without any problem.

Thanks a lot anyway to you and Andreas for your answers.


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