On 4/23/14, Rob Weir <robw...@apache.org> wrote: > On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 6:53 AM, Rory O'Farrell <ofarr...@iol.ie> wrote: >> On Wed, 23 Apr 2014 12:34:33 +0200 >> dav...@flossconsulting.it wrote: >> >>> >>> > What options do we have available? Do we accept private attachments in >>> > Bugzilla? Can a properly obtained stack trace replace the need for the >>> > actual document, maybe? Other options? >>> >>> What about anonymize the DOCX by searching and replacing any simple char >>> with X char? >>> With MS Office of course.... >>> >>> Davide >>> >>> >>> > >>> > Note: in my case I already asked for, and received, a working ODT >>> > version. I'm interested in the generic discussion. >>> > >>> > Regards, >>> > Andrea. >> >> One can't anonymize an unopenable file! It would have to be done using the >> generating application. >> > > But it is possible, in theory to do something like this with the > Apache ODF Toolkit (incubating).
Isnt the ODF Toolkit for ODF only?? What would that help on a DOCX document? > > But it is tricky, especially if the document has embedded documents, > OLE embeddings, images with confidential information, etc. You could Probably some binary blob is causing the file to be unable to be open by AOO. > need to replace it all. But the stuff you replace might be the source > of the crash. > > A safer way is for the person who edited the document to do a binary > search for the issue, e.g., creating test documents containing the > first half of the document and another with the 2nd half. See which Agree. > one crashes. Then divide that test document. And so on, until you've > narrowed down what is causing the crash. Of course, not all crashes > can be narrowed down that way, but many can. > > -Rob > >> >> -- >> Rory O'Farrell <ofarr...@iol.ie> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org >> > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org > > -- Alexandro Colorado Apache OpenOffice Contributor http://www.openoffice.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
