On 07/30/2008 03:37 PM, Jack D. Lewis wrote:

> Sebastián,
> 
> The files you sent to this list were not in OpenOffice format even 
> though they had an ods file extension. They appear to be in Gnumeric's 
> own format which is an xml file which is then compressed with the GZip 
> compression library. Your best bet is to reopen the files in Gnumeric 
> and export them to OpenOffice format. I believe that Gnumeric will only 
> export in the older sxc format and this requires the OpenCalc/StarCalc 
> plugin.
> 

The newer versions export to ods, but when you do a file save as for ods
it shows: OpenDocument/OpenOffice_UNFINISHED_(*.ods)
so I wondered if it actually works. I created a short xls test sheet,
opening in gnumeric, saved as an ods, and opened in OOo 2.4.1 with no
problem.

I then saved it as an gnumeric (.gnumeric) reopened in gnumeric, resaved
and renamed with a .ods extension; the result in attempting to open in
OOo or gnumeric is the same: No Zip Trailer when trying to open in
gnumeric and garbage when trying to open in OOo.

So I rename to .gnumeric and bingo! the file opens.

So I rename Sebastián's files to have a .gnumeric extension instead of
.ods and they open fine. Odd that gnumeric relies on a filename
extension to open one of their own files... seems rather MS'ish.

Sebastián: rename your files to have a .gnumeric extension rather than
an .ods extention. Reopen in gnumeric and then select File|Save As| and
under file type select OpenDocument/OpenOffice_UNFINISHED_(*.ods)
The file(s) will be saved as a proper ods file that can be opened in
OpenOffice.org (OOo).

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