Re: What is the best option to open .docx, pptx files in Ubuntu LTS 8.04 ?

On 10/08/2008 04:51 PM, Hal Burgiss wrote:
On Wed, Oct 08, 2008 at 04:25:48PM -0700, NoOp wrote:

File a bug (please). In searching the LP OOo bug list for docx I only
find one somewhat outdated & slightly odd bug report. See:

I guess its a known issue. Here is some snippets from launchpad:


docx support is not nearly complete yet, this problem should get
somewhat better in 8.04 (OpenOffice 2.3.1) and then hopefully much
better in 8.10 (OpenOffice 3.0.0).

[...]

Actually upstream openoffice doesn't support docx at all, the support
that is available is from ooo-build but once openoffice 3.0 is
released there will be upstream support for docx.

[...]

Oh, I am sorry, upstream means the official Sun OpenOffice.org.
ooo-build is a set patches that go-oo.org makes to the official Sun
version. Even once OpenOffice 3.0 is released it may not have full
support for docx, as it still has problems with older versions of
Microsoft formats as well. However, I meant that it is likely to be
better supported than it is currently since it will be officially
supported by Sun's OpenOffice at that point (3.0 release).



That's what I meant by "slightly odd bug report" meaning it can be a
little misleading if you don't know that history of OOo and go-ooo.org
docx support; at the time of Chris' replies OOo 2.3.1 didn't support
docx; it wasn't until OOo 3.0 that docx was supported. go-ooo
(Novell/ximian/debian/ubuntu etc) on the otherhand (perhaps due to
Novell's agreement with Microsoft) implemented an import filter in their
branch of OOo. So, that's why you'll need to file a bug report against
the (U)OOo version as it's not the same as the standard OpenOffice.org
OOo version.

As I mentioned, the (U)OOo 2.4.1 version does open .docx files for me,
so please do file a bug so that Chris can have a look at the issue. If
you have a .docx sample/document & care to send it to me directly I'll
be happy to test it in (U)OOo 2.4.1, OOo3.0_m9(RC4), and StarOffice 9.



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