On Sat, 2009-07-11 at 07:05 -0700, Visakh wrote:

> On Jul 11, 4:45 pm, "stranger in black....." <[email protected]> wrote:
> > the attachment is the doc file bincy tried to open. She mailed it to
> > me......
> 
>   You know what, Syam chettan was right! It is a docx file (OOXML
> document), but with the wrong extension. Change the name from
> "requirementspecification.doc" to "requirementspecification.docx" -
> and it will open properly.

The file opened without any problem in Abiword, without renaming. I
think all the material was there, but the layout was badly affected.
Though Abiword has problems, it has certain good aspects too. For
instance, it creates good-looking equations because it uses LaTeX for
equations. :-)

Best
-- 
V. Sasi Kumar
Free Software Foundation of India
Please visit http://swatantryam.blogspot.com 


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