Andy Hilgartner wrote: > I have a file -- non-standard mathematics and text -- with text slightly > corrupted by OCR, and mathematics more severely corrupted. I have spent > a number of hours editing it, mainly in OpenOffice 2.0. > Last night, after I had worked on it most of the day, I saved the file > in two places on my computer and emailed a copy to a collaborator (as an > attachment). > Today when I tried to bring up this file again (and do further work on > it) I got an error message -- "Read error -- file format error at 2068,7 > (row, col)". I got that error message referring to both the copies I had > saved on my computer. > The OpenOffice Writer program would not / could not open the file. > > My question: Does OpenOffice 2.0 include utilities with which I could > repair the error (and then go on working on the file)?
If the error lies in the xml content then there is no built-in repair utility. Can you tell us which version of OOo you have used for editing the files? The OOoBeta version (milestone m79) is known to have a bug that at times created xml files with duplicated attributes. You could try the following: extract the content.xml of your document and open it in Mozilla or Firefox. Go to the line 2068 as shown in the error message. Do you see any corrupted content or duplicated attributes? Best regards, Mathias -- Mathias Bauer - OpenOffice.org Application Framework Project Lead Please reply to the list only, [EMAIL PROTECTED] is a spam sink. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
