OO 2.0 .odt is zip?

[Seneca Cunningham]

On Thu, Nov 22, 2007 at 06:35:02PM -0500, Chris Aitken wrote:
> On my computer I have OO 2.3. I save a file as an .odt and that's it - 
> no problem. On my wife's computer (OO 2.0) I Save As .odt and it comes 
> out as a 'zip archive' fle (?) containing directories (?) of things like 
> 'Thumbnails', and files such as whatever.xml). Why is the OO 2.0 doing 
> this? I just want to save and open docs as simple .odt's. The zip 
> archive has an icon of a box. If I right-click the "file" it identifies 
> itself as an .odt but also identifies itself as a zip archive file.

Superficially, an OpenDocument document is a jar file that uses a
differently formatted manifest to Java jars.  In terms of decompression,
this amounts to zip.  If the computer is not aware of how to determine
that a file really is OpenDocument, it will recognise it as either a
Java jar or a zip file.

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