On Thursday 04 October 2007, Peter Vandenabeele wrote: > On 10/4/07, Richard/g <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > To a similar note, I had problems opening > > > StarOffice documents (from > > > the years 2000-2001) in OO.o 2.2 on Ubuntu > > > (the error was something > > > to the effect of: "sorry cannot open this > > > file, try to choose from these > > > extensions"). I was told (in private) that > > > the "Debian/Ubuntu" packaged > > > version has less input filters than the > > > default OO.o version. Is that correct ? > > > > > > Peter > > > > On Ubuntu-7.04, I see the following: > > odt, sxw, Word-95/97/2k/XP, Lotus WordPro, > > StarOffice_3-5 (sdw), rtf, AportisDoc, DocBook, > > Word2003 XML, Works, PocketWord, > > StarWriter-1,2,DOS, Ichitaro, Hangul, > > WPS-2000/Office and a whole raft of others. > > > > I doubt there are fewer filters. Seems more > > trouble to take them out than leave them. > > I checked now a little more specific. I have tens and > tens of old .sdw documents here I cannot open > anymore ... > > It are e.g. invoices from 2005 (that is not that old ...) > saved as "Invoice ... 200519.sdw" that do not open > automatically when double clicked in the File browser > of Ubuntu Feisty with OO.o 2.2. > > I now focussed on top100.sdw (a top100 of sons, so > not that "confidential"). > > Then selecting some obvious I/O filters by hand results > in: > > "General Error. > General I/O error." > > If you keep the doc somewhat confidential, I > could send one to a person that asks me.
There's just me here looking at things. :) Send me some that you want opened. If it won't under Ubuntu I'll try sidux and then Puppy. They should open. If not, I'll explain, again, how to make them open, as long as the zip isn't broken completely. saludos, Richard. > Actually funny enough, I cannot even open the .sdw file in > gedit as well: > > gedit has not been able to detect the character coding. > Please check that you are not trying to open a binary file. > Select a character coding from the menu and try again. > > Opening with od -ax (a hex reader) yields: > > $ od -ax top100.sdw > > 0000000 P O dc1 ` ! 1 sub a nul nul nul nul nul nul nul nul > cfd0 e011 b1a1 e11a 0000 0000 0000 0000 > 0000020 nul nul nul nul nul nul nul nul ; nul etx nul ~ del ht nul > 0000 0000 0000 0000 003b 0003 fffe 0009 > 0000040 ack nul nul nul nul nul nul nul nul nul nul nul soh nul nul nul > 0006 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0001 0000 > > Running strings on it yields for first lines: > > $ strings top100.sdw > > Text > StarWriter 5.0 > SfxDocumentInfo > <01 > <01 > <01 > > > > > > > > > Info 0 > > Info 1 > > Info 2 > > Info 3 > > TASK,0,1+ > 2,0,100,1,2371;2011;120;0;72;14736;9996;0;0 > . `' > . 0* > . p5 > . @8 > . 6') > Standard > Standard > SW5HDR > > > HTH, > > > Peter --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
