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It's rather ironic that the one old file format I've tried to open in LibreOffice, namely, old StarOffice 5 files, do not open. (LibreOffice forked from OpenOff
by professoretc 3y ago
It's rather ironic that the one old file format I've tried to open in LibreOffice, namely, old StarOffice 5 files, do not open. (LibreOffice forked from OpenOffice, which was the open-sourcing of StarOffice.) The converters were removed to simplify the codebase.
- jonhohle 3y agoIf they are converters, I wonder how difficult it would be to make them standalone utilities that did the format conversion and nothing more (assuming there doesn’t need to be manual intervention). I’m sure there is complexity but it seems like StarOffice is a fixed format at this point, and OpenDocument has some previous fixed version that could be targeted. Not that anyone should expect different, but Apple has not preserved backwards compatibility with their iWork formats and I have several legacy documents that I need to find old versions to open.
- davidgerard 3y agoLO now has libstaroffice, which should read them. What happens with recent LO?
- theandrewbailey 3y agoTry opening with Libreoffice 3.x. A lot of support for Staroffice was dropped in LO 4. https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/4.0#Feature_removal_/_deprecation https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/4.0#Feature...