[PLUG] Dealing With Microsoft's XML Document Format

wes plug at the-wes.com
Mon Jul 21 18:17:21 UTC 2008


On 7/21/08, chris (fool) mccraw <gently at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 7/21/08, Robert Citek <robert.citek at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Yes, using Ubuntu 7.10 and 8.04.  The document had to end in .docx.
> >  Then I could double-click on it and OOo (both 2.3 and 2.4) would open
> >  it.  However, I suspect it is not a feature of OOo, but rather of
> >  Ubuntu. I tried opening the same .docx file with OOo 2.4 on Windows
> >  without any luck.  I haven't dug deep enough to figure out what magic
> >  Ubuntu is doing.
>
> I've used this methodology with success (on ubuntu, where my
> openoffice did not automagically do the right thing):
>
>
> http://www.oooninja.com/2008/01/convert-openxml-docx-etc-in-linux-using.html
>
> looks like it'd work anywhere.



Looks like Ubuntu comes with Novell's OOXML translator included. Slackware
apparently doesn't.

I have tried to get this translator to work on Windows without success.

-wes



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