Re: [libreoffice-users] diff of 2 docx files

On 4/02/2014 8:08 pm, Peter West wrote:
> If you write the files out as .fodt (Flat XML) files from within LO, you
> will have straight XML files to compare.
>
> Beyond that, you could get the tika-app.jar from the Apache Tika
> project, which will let you extract plain text from the .fodt files and
> directly from the .odt files.

Make that ".docx files."

> On 4/02/2014 6:36 pm, berenger.morel@neutralite.org wrote:
> > Hello.
> >
> > Is it possible to have a diff between 2 .docx files in libreoffice? Or
> > with any other tool, I do not really mind...
> > I am not fond of office suites, but at my work they sent me an outdated
> > document describing what I have to do, and when I asked about some
> > "details" ( or errors, in fact ) in it, they sent me a different ( but
> > still with errors... ) version of the same document.
> > With a simple text file, I could have made a diff ( lot of tools for
> > that ) but I have no idea about how to do it with docx files. I have
> > obviously tried to unzip them, and use diff and meld on resulting files,
> > but those files are so messy, that I thought that, maybe, they are
> > encrypted of whatever!
> > Now that I think about it, I could do a diff of files made through a
> > copy/paste of the text... but that would be quite dirty.
> >
> > Thanks for any suggestions.
> >
> > PS: I did not registered to this list, so please add me in CC.

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