[Liverpool] How LibreOffice Writer Tops MS Word

[Stephen Watkin]

Depending on the exact flavour of corruption (and if it's a native open 
document file), you might be able to open the file in your favourite zip 
file manager and extract the contents that way. ODF files are just a 
bunch of zipped-up XML files after all. I just tried it on Ubuntu 11.10 
- rename the file and stick '.zip' on the end, open it in 'Archive 
Manager' and see if you can open the 'contents.xml' file in a text editor.

Ste

On 19/04/12 21:32, Daniel Hartley wrote:
> It's interesting you just send this out. I would generally completely 
> agree; however half an hour ago a document I've been working on for 
> months became corrupted using LibreOffice and I'm now spending the 
> night trying to salvage it from elsewhere......
>
> Alas, the tribulations of an unknowledgeable Linux user unable to 
> configure a properly working system...
>
> Regards.
>
> On 19/04/12 21:29, Bob Ham wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I saw this and thought it might be of interest:
>>
>> http://www.datamation.com/applications/how-libreoffice-writer-tops-ms-word-12-features-1.html
>>
>> It's a little shallow and completely ignores issues of freedom but it's
>> an interesting read.  The fact that it comes from a long-established
>> technology publication is, I think a sign of how appropriate it has
>> become to use free software alternatives to common proprietary desktop
>> software.
>>
>> A wonderful quote:
>>
>>    "Really, the superficial conventional wisdom has the wrong view
>>    entirely. It's not LibreOffice Writer that needs to catch up to MS
>>    Word. From an expert's perspective, it's frequently MS Word that needs
>>    to catch up [to] LibreOffice Writer."
>>
>>
>>
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