RE: AbiWord - .doc to pdf command line conversion

From: J.M. Maurer <uwog_at_uwog.net>
Date: Wed Jun 07 2006 - 16:21:41 CEST

On Tue, 2006-06-06 at 11:41 -0700, Dom Lachowicz wrote:
> Generally, I've seen that warning when the WordPerfect
> importer mis-identifies the file type, and decides to
> import the document. If you have that plugin
> installed, try removing it.

This is incorrect. When the WP importer tries to determine the file
type, and the file contains an OLE stream, it digs into that. However,
abi only passes the first 1024 bytes of the file to the detection code,
so we are reading in a partial OLE stream. This is never a good idea,
and thus libgsf will issue the warning.

But: I haven't seen any report in the last 2 years where libwpd
determined the filetype of a document wrongly. Even with that error on
your terminal. No need to remove the plugin, unless you just find that
error annoying.

Marc

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