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You missed the fact that the real Word does open this file just fine, its just the toy web version that has issues (and maybe Mac too but eh)
by zokier 3y ago
You missed the fact that the real Word does open this file just fine, its just the toy web version that has issues (and maybe Mac too but eh)
- elzbardico 3y agoOh, really? I stand corrected. Thanks for pointing this out.
- jgrahamc 3y agoNo, you're not wrong, another commenter points out that latest Word opens the document but doesn't display the graphics.
- ben7799 3y agoThe Office 365 Mac version refuses to open it. You can recover text but the result is horrible. No graphics and all formatting lost.
- jgrahamc 3y agoYes, it opens it and throws away the graphics, so not "just fine".
- zokier 3y agoIf we go into splitting hairs, it doesn't really throw the graphics away, it simply lacks the "filter" to display them but they are there still, as in it recognizes the graphics object correctly and lays out it on the page. Based on the error message, hypothetically I suppose you could even make a custom filter to handle the object. But this really goes more into the facet of Office files that allowed embedding pretty much anything into them, and relying on this "filter" system (I guess OLE) to handle embedded objects. So while the DOC file itself is getting parsed and rendered pretty much perfectly, the embedded objects are another story. In the same sense I'd say browser might open some HTML page "fine" even if it doesn't know how to handle some image format that is used on the page; it'd still handles the HTML correctly.
- jdofaz 3y agoMakes me wonder if the graphics are in PICT format
- zokier 3y agoI think they are. You can even find some PICT files inside the ODT in the github from TFA
- petersmagnusson 3y agoif you read the blog, the main point of OP’s project was to get at the diagrams, so hardly “splitting hairs”.
- nullindividual 3y agoThis is expected with the web versions of Office. They can read (certain) binary Office formats but not edit them. The web version of Office is designed for OpenXml file formats.