[SOLVED] Problem opening odt document in LibreOffice

Subhraman Sarkar · 01-16-2015, 02:23 AM

I have a password protected ODT document created in Libre Office 3.5. For a system crash, I have Libre Office 3.4 again. But when I tried to open the document, Libre Office showed the following error :

Code:

Read-Error.
Format error discovered in sub-document styles.xml at 1,0(row,col).

veerain · 01-16-2015, 03:34 AM

Try opening with 3.5. documents made in newer versions are sometime incompatible with older versions.

timl · 01-16-2015, 04:16 AM

Hi,

trying to get more visibility on this:

you have an ODT doc created in 3.5?
Your system crashed?
You tried to open it in 3.4? Or was it 3.5?

I had a quick look at duckduckgo and there are a few leads:

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Format+err...8row%2Ccol%29.

Good luck

Subhraman Sarkar · 01-16-2015, 06:05 AM

I viewed the styles.xml file, but because it is encrypted, nothing was understandable. Also I cannot upgrade to Libre Office 3.5 since I have to download about 63MBs in my slow Internet connection.

John VV · 01-16-2015, 11:47 AM

why did you go backwards and install an even OLDER version of Lo
you HAD 3.5
but you went backwards to 3.4 ???

and the CURRENT version is 4.3.5

also from WHERE did you get this antique version of Libreoffice
http://www.libreoffice.org/download/libreoffice-fresh/

Subhraman Sarkar · 01-17-2015, 03:35 AM

Reinstallation after the OS failure gave me LibreOffice 3.4 back. I am using Ubuntu 11.10 and I found this in my repository (Ubuntu museum for old releases). Sorry, but I would like to use 3.4 because it has some features which I cannot find in 3.5. Can you please tell me how to decrypt it? Then perhaps I will able to repair it.

AnanthaP · 01-17-2015, 03:55 AM

Dirty solution - IF YOU DONT HAVE TOO MANY FILES.

Locate a computer with LO 3.5 (or above)
Open and save as RTF or .doc
Read it on 3.4
SaveAs ODT

Isn't 4.2 the latest.

Whereabouts do you reside? Can you get some altruist to download 3.5 and cut it for you on a disk?

OK

John VV · 01-17-2015, 02:56 PM

that explains it
11.04 went END OF LIFE back in October of 2012

it has NOT gotten any SECURITY updates in 1.5 years

it should NOT be used

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ub...er/000165.html

Subhraman Sarkar · 01-27-2015, 08:36 AM

Thanks for your help. I recently found a backup file.