Hi :) Yes, we have had people on this list that have solved their problems by installing the official LO from "upstream" at LibreOffice rather than using their *buntuised version from their repos.
Regards from Tom :) >________________________________ > From: Dan Lewis <[email protected]> >To: [email protected] >Sent: Thursday, 17 January 2013, 17:17 >Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Broken file > >On 01/17/2013 10:53 AM, Sandy Harris wrote: >> On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 8:32 AM, Dan Lewis <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> I'm not sure about this: Where did you get your copy of LibreOffice? >> Via the Xubuntu Linux distro, 64-bit X86, 3.5.something kernel. >> >>> And would you mention what version you >>> are using again please? >> "about" says Version 3.6.2.2 (Build ID: 360m1(Build:2)) >> >> All updates Xubuntu has released are applied. > My reason for asking is that versions of LibreOffice provided by an OS's >repository sometimes have unintended bugs in them because of the changes they >have made in their version. I haves seen complaints over the years about bugs >that exist in an OS version of OOo that did not occur in the OOo website >version. I think I have seen this with LO, but I'm not real sure. > As it has been mentioned, repeatedly changing the document's format could >be the guilty culprit. > One warning about AbiWord. It has been my experience that it does not >handle large text documents with extensive formatting and graphics. I opened a >copy of one of my Base chapters (1.6 MB, 45 pages) with it. It crashed after >creating a saved version that was 2.4MB! The latter is not a correctly formed >zip file. > One thing that I forgot to mention earlier is that correctly formed .odt >files are zipped files. It can be unzipped by renaming the .odt extension to >.zip and using unzip. The content.xml file in it has all the content of the >.odt file without any of the styles. If a new text document is created, it can >be modified to contain the content.xml file from the problem document. Extract >the content.xml from the problem document. Change the extension of the new >text document to .zip. Then add the content.xml file to this zip file. I >double click a .zip file to open the Archive Manager which you use to add the >file. (I don't know the name of this program in Xubuntu.) > >--Dan > >-- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: [email protected] >Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ >Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette >List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ >All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted > > > -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
