Am 06.10.2013 um 17:16 schrieb Urmas <davian...@gmail.com>: > "James Knott": > > Why do you say it won't open stuff from back then? > No version of OO.o can open the StarOffice documents (SDW, etc.) properly. > Since the very early days after OpenOffice.org 1.0 was released, a tool called "Document Converter" was promoted. You can find it under "File=>Wizards=>Document Converter…". This tool is intended for batch conversion of the old StarOffice file formats to the newer XML based OpenOffice. We used StarOffice 5.2 in our company until OpenOffice.org was released to the public, so we have a bunch of these old files. I just checked a .sdw and a .sdc with a 3.x version on Linux, the files were opened without any problems. We did a batch conversion somewhere during the OpenOffice 2.x series to the newer formats .sxw, .sxc, sxi. The old binary formats of StarOffice are proprietary formats, so I would accept the removal from the current 4.x main releases, but perhaps there could be an extension developed which is capable to open these old StarOffice (and MS-Office 6.0/97 too) formats.
Regards, Volker.
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