RE: [libreoffice-users] Clean up/optimize/canonicalize a .odt file

Hi, Thanks for the thoughts.  Yes I always keep back versions (there were
197 in the first revision of the Standard).
 
> So, that said. . . .
> What packages have been used to edit the document in the past 
> - version specifics included.  The earlier versions of OOo 
> [whatever number it was when OOo started reading/writing .doc 
> files] did different things to a .doc formated document that 
> looked a little different in LO 4.0.x, when I opened them to 
> do some editing and saving them into both .doc and .odt 
> formats.  MS Word edits to a "document.odt" file then edited 
> by LO 4.3.x [through 4.4.x] and then editing by AOO, then 
> Word, then back to LO, can insert a lot of unneeded 
> formatting "tags" in the document.  I have seen this with LO 
> to Word to LO to Word and back to LO document editing.  I 
> have seen this in .docx and .odt files.  For such an "round-robin" 
> editing cycle, I tend to ask for the file in some older 
> format, like .doc, to stop the "padding of blank tags" or any 
> other "extra stuffings" 
> of non-needed formatting. 

The document was only ever edited with OpenOffice, probably using all
versions current from 2001 -> 2008.  It was never a .doc file, only .odt.

> YES
> Tom, I really hope someone has created some add on 
> extension/filter to clean out all the unneeded "blank" tags 
> and other formatting info.  I really hated to do it myself.  
> I almost rather save the document to a formatted .txt file 
> extension and redo the "real formatting" over the manual 
> removal of all of the "blank" formatting tags.

It's an extremely complex document with highly technical formatting, so any
manual editing of the tags (or redoing the formatting) isn't really an
option.

That said .. perhaps exporting it to some other format then reloading it
would preserve content and formatting and omit the redundant tags?  Any
suggestions as to which format to try would be welcome (not MSWord, by the
sound of it)!

Mike


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