OO 2.0 .odt is zip?

Chris Aitken chris-n/jUll39koHNgV/OU4+dkA at public.gmane.org
Fri Nov 23 00:07:52 UTC 2007


Seneca Cunningham wrote:
> 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.
>   
So, do I need to somehow wake a file association so that it will simpy 
open as an OO document?

Chris

--
The Toronto Linux Users Group.      Meetings: http://gtalug.org/
TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns
How to UNSUBSCRIBE: http://gtalug.org/wiki/Mailing_lists





More information about the Legacy mailing list