Hi there, On Thu, 2011-07-21 at 09:15 +0530, swagat sharma wrote: > Thanks for your valuable time. I'll explain the problem in more > details.
Great - that is most helpful :-) > I create a new Document (.odt file). I add some custom properties, Say > a text and a number, by going into File->Properties->Custom > Properties. > I save the file (as .odt) and close it. When I open the file, I go to > custom properties and they are there. Right - so the custom properties are saved in a separate stream either: \05SummaryInformation and/or \05DocumentSummaryInformation - and are in some magic MS/OLE file format. You can prolly chase some of this down from here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd908145%28v=office.12%29.aspx Though there are a lot of links to follow. AFAIR each of Word, Excel and (particularly) PPT use a slightly different version of this perhaps different stream names. One of our bigger missing .ppt export features used to be not exporting slide names - which (AFAIR) were stored in streams like this too - it'd be great to fix that: it sucks to loose slide name information. > Now I save the same file as Microsoft 97/2000/XP format, using 'Save > As' option. I close and reopen the .doc file again.. All the Custom > properties are vanished. Yep - so to find the related code: /g grep 'SummaryInformation"' Will show you some fertile places to read (ignore the binfilter stuff). Hope that helps ! :-) ATB, Michael. -- michael.me...@novell.com <><, Pseudo Engineer, itinerant idiot _______________________________________________ LibreOffice mailing list LibreOffice@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice