Dear OO developers
I created a spreadsheet with the 109 beta of OpenOffice 2.0 and saved
it as t1.ods. I then right-clicked on this file and renamed it to
t1.zip. I then right-clicked on it again and used the Windows zip
extraction tool to unpack it. I did not open or in any way alter the
resulting directory or contents thereof. I right clicked on the
folder, compressed as a zip and then renamed the result to t1.ods.
When I try to open this file with OpenOffice, it reports it is
corrupt and offers to repair the file. When I answer "yes" it then
reports it cannot repair the file.
When I unzip both the before and after versions of the ods file, the
results are identical. When I examine the two ods files using a hex
editor, I see that both are zip files (PK first 2 chars), but the
file produced by OpenOffice has some plain text XML inside it
(manifest)!
What am I doing wrong? I would like to be able to programmatically
generate ods files and performed these above manual steps first as a
test. If I can generate ods files from my application which are
subsequently editable in OpenOffice, this would be of great help to
my users and will be a compelling reason for them to switch from
their present proprietary office suite to open office.
Thanks for any help. I am using Windows XP SP2.
Regards
David
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