Eric Brunel wrote:
Hello all,
We are trying to generate a document in Open Document
Format and we're having a problem with the latest Mac
version of LibreOffice (3.5.4.2): it says the document is
corrupt when other OOo-based software open it correctly
(namely IBM / Lotus Symphony 3.0.0 FP2 and OOo itself
version 3.1.1, all on the Mac). The 'repair' option is
available and actually opens the document correctly, but
we would prefer to have a usable document right away and
not force people to repair it after each generation…
Here is how we generate the document: we actually use an
existing ODF document as some kind of template, unzip it,
extract all its contents and replace the content.xml file
by one we generate ourselves. One of the generated
documents causing the problem is attached.
So if anyone could have a look and tell us what we are
doing wrong. Or even better, if there's a way to make
LibreOffice tell us what's actually wrong in the document,
that would be great.
Thanks a lot.
--
- Eric Brunel <[email protected]> -
PragmaDev : Real Time Software Development Tools -
http://www.pragmadev.com
I did some testing on the document you created. First
I downloaded the file, created a copy, and renamed the copy
from .odt to .zip (doctext.zip). Then I opened the
downloaded file with LO allowing it to repair the file. Then
I saved it (doctext(repaired).odt, created a copy of it, and
renamed it from .odt to .zip. I also opened the two zipped
files next to each other.
My findings:
doctext.zip
doctext(repaired).zip
Configurations2
0 bytes
META-INF 2.0kB
1.2 kB
Pictures 767 bytes
767 bytes
Thumbnails
2.3 kB
content.xml 5.0 kB
4.8 kB
manifest.rdf
899 bytes
meta.xml 1.1 kB
1.1 kB
mimetype 39 bytes
39 bytes
settings.xml 6.8 kB
9.0 kB
styles.xml 14.3 kB
15.0 kB
I will let others draw their own conclusions as to
what this means.
Then again, I have some questions and comments. Why
are you creating a document by only changing the content.xml
file? From the above information, clearly other files needed
to be changed as well. And as Andreas pointed out, LO will
report the error regardless of the OS used on a computer.
Will creating a template with the layout you want work
just as well or better? It can be used to open a new
document. Then you can enter or copy material into the new
document. When you save this, LO will update all the files
and folders within the ODT file.
--Dan
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