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

Eric Brunel wrote:
> 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.
     I need you to clear a point up for me. You did not say 
what format the generated document is in. This might make a 
difference. Also how did you generate the contents.xml file? 
Perhaps these have a similar answer.

--Dan

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