Re: [libreoffice-users] Frame in header of .doc crashes Writer

Hi :)
The ideal way to store documents is with OpenDocument Formats such as Odt.  Only convert to MS 
formats if you have to share but leave the Odt in the same folder so that you can re-edit the 
document easily without having to push a document through so many conversions.  
Regards from
Tom :)  





> ________________________________
> From: Jay Lozier <jslozier@gmail.com>
> To: users@global.libreoffice.org 
> Sent: Thursday, 21 February 2013, 3:31
> Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Frame in header of .doc crashes Writer
>
> On 02/20/2013 08:54 PM, paul@fuery.com wrote:
> > I'm having some trouble opening a legal pleading .doc, which has some line
> > numbers on the left side of the page, in the form of a table in a frame in
> > the header. MS Word opens it just fine, but LibreOffice 3.6 and 4.0.0.3 both
> > seem to have the frame extending past the edges of the page, with the page
> > count increasing until LibreOffice crashes by running out of memory.
> >
> > The attached file is a .doc, and converting it to .docx fixes the problem
> > (stupid frames), but I have many other .doc files like it, and re-saving
> > each one isn't a desirable solution.
> >
> > crashy_pleading.doc
> > <http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/file/n4039033/crashy_pleading.doc>
> I tried opening the document with Writer (4.0.03), Abiword, and Calligra. Writer crashed and the 
> other two opened something but it did look correct either one.
>
> My thought would be to try a headless conversion for *.doc to *.docx in Terminal. This will make 
> new copies of the files in the appropriate format on your system.
>
> In Linux the command would be like this when you in the folder where the *.doc files are:
> /opt/libreoffice4.0/program/soffice --headless --convert-to docx *.doc
>
> Out of curiosity can you save the *.docx format to *.odt and it look correct in *.odt?
>
> -- Jay Lozier
> jslozier@gmail.com
>
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