rtf filter detection order

Michael Stahl mstahl at redhat.com
Tue Jul 29 08:46:49 PDT 2014


On 29/07/14 17:18, Anthonys Lists wrote:
> On 29/07/2014 14:52, Kohei Yoshida wrote:
>>> But it should be add added that this only works for Writer and Calc,
>>>> because there is no plain text import code for the other applications.
>>>> So a text file (or an unknown file) opened from Impress will be opened
>>>> in Writer anyway.
>> Yup.  You are right about this.
> Not having a clue how Impress etc work but ...
> 
> If they use an xml document to store their stuff in a native LO archive, 
> then imho my attempted fix for a corrupt Calc document should work the 
> same way for correcting a corrupt Impress (or any other LO) document.
> 
> It should be possible, for ANY LO document that is stored that way, to 
> break out the content.xml, read it back into the original application, 
> and recover at least the basic original document.

i suspect you could get it loaded with the Flat ODF filters, just need
to change the root element of content.xml to <office:document>




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