Re: ASCII Encryption

[Rory O'Farrell]

On Tue, 8 Sep 2015 11:15:37 -0700
Matthew Lee  wrote:

> Hello, I have used OpenOffice for a while without any issues but recently,
> a file that I was working on wouldn't open without me specifying some ASCII
> encryption. None of the pulldown menu options for what language I'd like to
> decode the file in resulted in anything that looked like a normal document
> (my file was about 20 pages of all text, no pictures). I don't know how the
> file came to be encrypted in such a way but after going through the Support
> Forums, I couldn't find any help so I was wondering if there's a way that I
> can have my file restored from what it is now (like removing the coding
> encryption, etc.?) I've attached the file if that helps.

I doubt that your file is actually encrypted.  That message (ASCII filter) 
occurs when a file is damaged and OO can't understand it. This often occurs if 
there has been a computer or program crash, or sometimes if the computer has 
been turned off too quickly, before the hardware/software write buffers have 
flushed to disk.  

You should look in the backup and temporary directories pointed to by /Tools 
/Options /OpenOffice : Paths. Rename any files in those to type .xls and see if 
they contain your data. Run an undelete utlity such as Recuva or PhotoRec and 
see if it will find some deleted temporary file holding some or all of your 
data. I'd start with Recuva or PhotoRec (you only need one of these, and the 
sooner the better).
You can also rename the file to .zip (outside of OpenOffice) and use an archive 
utility (typically winzip or 7-zip) to open the archive.  If it opens, in 
content.xml you will find your text.


> 
> On an unrelated note, I've also noticed that when I transferred my files to
> an external hard drive, they all showed up as Microsoft Word Documents even
> though they were all created and saved as .odt files. Is there a way to
> change all of them back to .odt files without having to individually open
> and save each file as an .odt file?
> 
> Thanks for any help,
> Matthew Lee


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Re: Textshapes

[Maurice Howe]

GOOGLE this: "text shapes in apache open office"
(with or w/o the quotes).

Maurice

On Tue, Sep 8, 2015 at 3:49 PM, wilg...@gmail.com  wrote:

> Working with a text document, on the "Gallery" page, under "New Themes"
> you have an item called "Textshapes."  I wanted to learn how to put text
> inside of one, BUT THERE IS NO ITEM CALLED "TEXTSHAPES" IN YOUR "HELP"
> INDEX!  It seems to me that EVERY term that appears in your menus should be
> somewhere in the HELP index!
>
> Sent from my LG Optimus G Pro™, an AT 4G LTE smartphone
>

Textshapes

[wilguss]

Working with a text document, on the "Gallery" page, under "New Themes" you 
have an item called "Textshapes."  I wanted to learn how to put text inside of 
one, BUT THERE IS NO ITEM CALLED "TEXTSHAPES" IN YOUR "HELP" INDEX!  It seems 
to me that EVERY term that appears in your menus should be somewhere in the 
HELP index!

Sent from my LG Optimus G Pro™, an AT 4G LTE smartphone

Bitte um Überprüfung eines Schwachstellenhinweises durch Kaspersky Lab

[Karl-Heinz Köck]

Sehr geehrte Damen und Herren, 

mein Virenprogramm "Kaspersky Security Multi-Device 2016" 
hat eine Schwachstellensuche bei OpenOffice bei folgender Datei erkannt: 
hwp.dll . 
Siehe dazu folgende URL: 
https://securelist.social-kaspersky.com/en/advisories/10569 

Ich bitte Sie höflich um Kenntnisnahme und um Ihre Mitteilung, welche Maßnahme 
ich dagegen ergreifen soll. 

Mit freundlichen Grüßen 

Karl-Heinz Köck 
Siedlungsring 65 
D-89415 Lauingen (Donau) 
Telefon: +49 9072 3434 

Re: Textshapes

[Martin Groenescheij]

On 09-Sep-15 07:18, Susan Wilgus wrote:

You evidently do not know what I am talking about.  The term on the Open
Office Text Document  page is TEXTSHAPES, all one word.  They appear to be
shapes that cannot have text inserted, which is what I was trying to do.  I
don't know what their function is, but none of the articles that appeared
when I Googled the words you gave me has anything to do with them.  My
comment was that ALL terms that appear in an Open Office toolbar should be
able to be found somewhere in your Help Index.  The term TEXTSHAPES not
only does NOT appear in your Help Index - it does not appear ANYWHERE on
the internet!  Why are you using a term in a toolbar that evidently does
not exist?


It exist on the internet:
http://www.openoffice.org/api/docs/common/ref/com/sun/star/drawing/TextShape.html
http://sofia.cs.vt.edu/sofia-2114/api/reference/sofia/graphics/TextShape.html

I agree it should exist also in the help file and documentation.
As OpenOffice and the documentation is a non commercial product build 
and maintained by volunteers
updates depend on the number of volunteers that are willing to invest 
time and effort.

If you have some spare time feel free to take on this task.

By the way if you copy a Textshape into Draw you're able to insert text.
The result can be copied into a Word document.
Don't ask me why text can't be inserted in a Word document, it's 
probably a bug




On Tue, Sep 8, 2015 at 4:22 PM, Maurice Howe  wrote:


GOOGLE this: "text shapes in apache open office"
(with or w/o the quotes).

Maurice

On Tue, Sep 8, 2015 at 3:49 PM, wilg...@gmail.com 
wrote:


Working with a text document, on the "Gallery" page, under "New Themes"
you have an item called "Textshapes."  I wanted to learn how to put text
inside of one, BUT THERE IS NO ITEM CALLED "TEXTSHAPES" IN YOUR "HELP"
INDEX!  It seems to me that EVERY term that appears in your menus should

be

somewhere in the HELP index!

Sent from my LG Optimus G Pro™, an AT 4G LTE smartphone




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ASCII Encryption

[Matthew Lee]

Hello, I have used OpenOffice for a while without any issues but recently,
a file that I was working on wouldn't open without me specifying some ASCII
encryption. None of the pulldown menu options for what language I'd like to
decode the file in resulted in anything that looked like a normal document
(my file was about 20 pages of all text, no pictures). I don't know how the
file came to be encrypted in such a way but after going through the Support
Forums, I couldn't find any help so I was wondering if there's a way that I
can have my file restored from what it is now (like removing the coding
encryption, etc.?) I've attached the file if that helps.

On an unrelated note, I've also noticed that when I transferred my files to
an external hard drive, they all showed up as Microsoft Word Documents even
though they were all created and saved as .odt files. Is there a way to
change all of them back to .odt files without having to individually open
and save each file as an .odt file?

Thanks for any help,
Matthew Lee

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Re: Bitte um Überprüfung eines Schwachstellenhinweises durch Kaspersky Lab

[Jörg Schmidt]

Hallo, 

> From: Karl-Heinz Köck [mailto:karl-heinzko...@vodafone.de] 
> Sent: Tuesday, September 08, 2015 11:23 PM
> To: users-de@openoffice.apache.org
> Cc: karl-heinz koeck
> Subject: Bitte um Überprüfung eines Schwachstellenhinweises 
> durch Kaspersky Lab
> 
> Sehr geehrte Damen und Herren, 

Wir sind hier nur normale Anwender und das "Du" ist üblich.

> mein Virenprogramm "Kaspersky Security Multi-Device 2016" 
> hat eine Schwachstellensuche bei OpenOffice bei folgender 
> Datei erkannt: hwp.dll . 
> Siehe dazu folgende URL: 
> https://securelist.social-kaspersky.com/en/advisories/10569 
> 
> Ich bitte Sie höflich um Kenntnisnahme und um Ihre 
> Mitteilung, welche Maßnahme 
> ich dagegen ergreifen soll. 

Folge dem Link zu OpenOffice auf:
https://securelist.social-kaspersky.com/en/advisories/10569

Und Du kommst zu:
http://www.openoffice.org/security/cves/CVE-2015-1774.html

Wo die Lösung beschrieben ist:

-beende OpenOffice inklusiv Schnellstarter
-lösche die Datei hwp.dll im OpenOffice-Programmordner (der 
OpenOffice-Programmordner ist z.B. bei Windows 7 üblicherweise unter 
"C:\Programme\OpenOffice 4\program\")

Das wars.

Nebenwirkungen:
Durch das Löschen dieser dll kannst Du zukünftig keine Dateien des Typs "Hangul 
Word Processor" (Dateiendung *.hwp) mehr lesen (der entsprechende Eintrag wird 
nicht aus der Liste im Öffnen-Dialog entfernt, aber wenn man ihn versucht zu 
benutzen ist er wirkungslos und es erfolgt eine Meldung, so getestet mit OOo 
3.3.0). 
Das dürfte in Praxis garnicht merklich sein, denn z.B. ich habe noch nie etwas 
von diesem Dateityp gehört, geschweige denn eine solche Datei bearbeiten müssen.

Auf benannter Seite ist auch vermerkt das der Fehler in AOO 4.1.2 behoben 
werden soll.


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Gruß
Jörg



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