Comments on: Open Office 2007 files in Linux http://www.shekhargovindarajan.com/open-source/open-office-2007-files-in-linux/?&owa_from=feed&owa_sid=&utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=open-office-2007-files-in-linux My Notepad on the Web Fri, 03 Sep 2010 14:45:23 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Shekhar http://www.shekhargovindarajan.com/open-source/open-office-2007-files-in-linux/comment-page-1/#comment-106 Shekhar Mon, 11 Aug 2008 07:28:28 +0000 http://www.shekhargovindarajan.com/?p=79#comment-106 Same experience. OpenOffice opens the Filter Selection dialog if you use the File>Open, browse and select a docx (or Office 2007) file and try to open it. The reason for this is odf-convertor-integrator is an external script (and not an OpenOffice filter). This script is associated with all the Office 2007 extensions (to be precise MIME types) during the RPM installation. It is like - for 2007 files, "Open With" > odf-convertor-integrator. This script in turn converts the 2007 files into OpenDocument files and invokes OpenOffice to open the converted file. OpenOffice does not even know the existence of this script and the script does not plug-into OpenOffice. It is interesting to see the mapping of Office 2007 file extensions to OpenDocument file extensions at line 177 in the odf-convertor-integrator script. On the other hand, Ubuntu seems to have some OpenOffice filters for reading 2007 file. But the link to odf-convertor-integrator mentions these filters to be of Alpha quality and recommends itself to be better :-) Same experience.

OpenOffice opens the Filter Selection dialog if you use the File>Open, browse and select a docx (or Office 2007) file and try to open it.

The reason for this is odf-convertor-integrator is an external script (and not an OpenOffice filter). This script is associated with all the Office 2007 extensions (to be precise MIME types) during the RPM installation. It is like – for 2007 files, “Open With” > odf-convertor-integrator.

This script in turn converts the 2007 files into OpenDocument files and invokes OpenOffice to open the converted file. OpenOffice does not even know the existence of this script and the script does not plug-into OpenOffice.

It is interesting to see the mapping of Office 2007 file extensions to OpenDocument file extensions at line 177 in the odf-convertor-integrator script.

On the other hand, Ubuntu seems to have some OpenOffice filters for reading 2007 file. But the link to odf-convertor-integrator mentions these filters to be of Alpha quality and recommends itself to be better :-)

]]> By: Kishore Bhargava http://www.shekhargovindarajan.com/open-source/open-office-2007-files-in-linux/comment-page-1/#comment-105 Kishore Bhargava Mon, 11 Aug 2008 06:56:16 +0000 http://www.shekhargovindarajan.com/?p=79#comment-105 I had installed an earlier version 0.1.3 and found a peculiar thing happening, if I try and open the file from within OpenOffice it does not seem to recognise the file type and pops up a file type selection list, same thing happened in 0.1.5 but if I open a file browser and double-click the file it opens it fine! Have you had a similar experience? Cheers...Kishore -- I had installed an earlier version 0.1.3 and found a peculiar thing happening, if I try and open the file from within OpenOffice it does not seem to recognise the file type and pops up a file type selection list, same thing happened in 0.1.5 but if I open a file browser and double-click the file it opens it fine!

Have you had a similar experience?

Cheers…Kishore
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