CentOS - Oct 2007 - DocX support in OpenOffice

Has anyone got the docx plugin for OpenOffice 2 running in CentOS?

I have tried using the OpenOffice.org rpms and the ones in CentOS, but
the plugin does not seem to work.

To get it working I extracted the rpm from Novell, then copied the
files to the registry/ folders and the Odfconverter to the program/
folder, but I can't get any ooxml files open at all, it gives me an
error about the file being invalid and having to recover, but all that
the recovery gets is an empty file.

I have tried with the official RPMs versions 2.0 and 2.2 and the CentOS
RPMs for 2.0. I have also tried hardcoding the path to where the files
are, instead of using a relative path, but to no avail.

The same procedure works perfectly with Ubuntu 7.04.

Any suggestions?

(My apologies if the question has already been answered, I could not
find it in my email using the search in Yahoo mail).

Thanks

Gabriel


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first last wrote:
> Has anyone got the docx plugin for OpenOffice 2 running in CentOS?
Is that the new Microsoft format? Support for that is planned in 
OpenOffice version 3, afaik. You should ask the creators of the 
X-formats (x-files? hehe)  .docx, .xlsx etc save in an earlier format 
and send to you.

//Morten

centos at 911networks.com wrote:
> Here is the basic problem with Linux! Over 1 million office 2007
> users and they have to change their software because it does not
> conform to the "standard". 
It is not only a problem for Linux users. Office 2003/XP/2000 etc can 
not read these files either. I know many Windows only shops who are 
pretty annoyed with the upgrade churn Microsoft force on them.

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I concur. This change is a problem for both camps; Open Source users and
older MS Office users.

Very annoying.

~James