Hello Isabelle, On Wednesday 14 October 2009, 16:14, Isabelle Ramade wrote: > thanks a lot for your answers. > I will test the three solutions as soon as i have a minute. > however, i am sure i used to be able to edit the meta and the odt file > used to open ……… > I cannot understand why this does not work any longer. And I like > understanding things…
this still works. OOo files are zip files, so as long as you keep the file integrity and follow the XML syntax of the file your modify, you can extract/modify/store back that meta.xml file. I've tested with several ODF documents, using the default tools you can find in a default Linux+KDE distribution (open the zip with Ark, extract the meta.xml file, edit this file with the default plain text editor, changed <meta:initial-creator>Homer J. Simpson</meta:initial-creator> and then add it back to the zip file), and it works ok. OOo can open the document back without complaining. So the problem may be that the tools you use (your text editor, the utility to unzip and zip, etc) modify the file integrity (for example, on MS the notepad does not store by default in utf-8, and the xml files must be xml encoded, so this will brake them. You seem to be using Mac, don't know how thinks work there). Regards -- Ariel Constenla-Haile La Plata, Argentina --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
