[Liverpool] How LibreOffice Writer Tops MS Word

[Stephen Watkin]

Yeah, as Bob just said, it looks like it's not the contents of the zip 
that have been corrupted, but the zip file itself - hence why Archive 
Manager won't open it.

Aparently, the 'zip' tool can have a stab at recovering what it can and 
writing it into a fresh zip file:

zip -FF indie\ post\ corruption.odt --out rezipped.zip

Then if you extract the resulting 'rezipped.zip' file, it gets as far as 
a JPEG image, then gives up. The image data in the JPEG file only looks 
to be about 3/4 present, so I'd guess the zip file was truncated when it 
was being saved.

That's about as far as I got, anyway.

Ste



It looks as though it's been truncated

On 19/04/12 21:56, Daniel Hartley wrote:
> It wont following the suggestions you gave unfortunately. However, 
> there is data in the file. Being cheeky and using my unknowledgeable 
> status to try to authorise it, I've attached the renamed file and the 
> original in the hope some sympathetic individual might be able to help 
> me out. Been working on this thing for months.... Thanks so much if 
> you do give it a go. I promise to buy a round when I do come to a meeting.
>
> Regards,
>
> Daniel.
>
> On 19/04/12 21:39, Stephen Watkin wrote:
>> 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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