On 3/31/2010 2:16, Dr Andrew C Aitchison wrote:
On Tue, 30 Mar 2010, Robert E. Blair wrote:
I have been lately quite annoyed by the fact that sometimes (not always)
the new versions of powerpoint files (.pptx ones) do not cause
openoffice to come up. You often need to save the file and then open it
locally. It just dawned on my why. Many (ours included) web servers do
not have pptx in the /etc/mime.types file so the files are not properly
labeled as powerpoint. I believe that adding the following to the
/etc/mime.types file of our web servers will fix it:
change: application/vnd.ms-powerpoint ppt
instead it should read: application/vnd.ms-powerpoint ppt pptx
Similar changes are needed for doc->doc docx
and for xls->xls xlsx
Without this the web server identifies the files as binary and a browser
that respects this simply allows you to download and not to open the
file. It would be great if TUV would incorporate this into future
releases of the mailcap rpm.
You just set your server to use the wrong MIME types. The correct types
for MSOOXML files are (apologies for any wrapping):
application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.presentationml.presentation pptx
application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.presentationml.slide sldx
application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.presentationml.slideshow ppsx
application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.presentationml.template potx
application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.spreadsheetml.sheet xlsx
application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.spreadsheetml.template xltx
application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document docx
application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.template dotx
I do agree, this should definitely be fixed upstream.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=578519
I hadn't realized that OpenOffice.org 2.x supported those formats.
I wonder whether they made that change when they released
OpenOffice.org 3.1
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2010-0274.html
(and/or RH Enterprise Linux 5.5) ?
It was part of OO.o's 3.0 release, so one would certainly expect said
support to be there.
--
Garrett Holmstrom
University of Minnesota School of Physics and Astronomy
Systems Staff
