Re: [libreoffice-users] Broken file

Hi :)
Yes, we have had people on this list that have solved their problems by installing the official LO 
from "upstream" at LibreOffice rather than using their *buntuised version from their repos.  


Regards from
Tom :)





> ________________________________
> From: Dan Lewis <elderdanlewis@gmail.com>
> To: users@global.libreoffice.org 
> Sent: Thursday, 17 January 2013, 17:17
> Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Broken file
>
> On 01/17/2013 10:53 AM, Sandy Harris wrote:
> > On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 8:32 AM, Dan Lewis <elderdanlewis@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > >        I'm not sure about this: Where did you get your copy of LibreOffice?
> > Via the Xubuntu Linux distro, 64-bit X86, 3.5.something kernel.
> >
> > > And would you mention what version you
> > > are using again please?
> > "about" says Version 3.6.2.2 (Build ID: 360m1(Build:2))
> >
> > All updates Xubuntu has released are applied.
>      My reason for asking is that versions of LibreOffice provided by an OS's repository sometimes 
> have unintended bugs in them because of the changes they have made in their version.  I haves seen 
> complaints over the years about bugs that exist in an OS version of OOo that did not occur in the 
> OOo website version. I think I have seen this with LO, but I'm not real sure.
>      As it has been mentioned, repeatedly changing the document's format could be the guilty 
> culprit.
>      One warning about AbiWord. It has been my experience that it does not handle large text 
> documents with extensive formatting and graphics. I opened a copy of one of my Base chapters (1.6 
> MB, 45 pages) with it. It crashed after creating a saved version that was 2.4MB! The latter is not 
> a correctly formed zip file.
>      One thing that I forgot to mention earlier is that correctly formed .odt files are zipped 
> files. It can be unzipped by renaming the .odt extension to .zip and using unzip. The content.xml 
> file in it has all the content of the .odt file without any of the styles. If a new text document 
> is created, it can be modified to contain the content.xml file from the problem document. Extract 
> the content.xml from the problem document. Change the extension of the new text document to .zip. 
> Then add the content.xml file to this zip file. I double click a .zip file to open the Archive 
> Manager which you use to add the file. (I don't know the name of this program in Xubuntu.)
>
> --Dan
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