Comment 10 for bug 1086566

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In , Toon-k (toon-k) wrote :

Hi, I would like to confirm this problem.
Appearently Apple iWork creates DOC files in the 97-2003 binary Word format.
This is the output of the 'file' command:

factuur 20120829.doc: Composite Document File V2 Document, Little Endian, Os: Windows, Version 5.0, Code page: 0

I'm running Libreoffice on Gentoo Linux (I compile it myself).
6 weeks ago I could successfully open this type of documents, but now I can't anymore.

Below is the recent upgrade-history on my desktop machine:

     Fri Aug 31 22:06:02 2012 >>> app-office/libreoffice-3.5.5.3
     Fri Aug 31 22:06:23 2012 >>> app-office/libreoffice-l10n-3.5.5
     Sat Oct 13 17:49:50 2012 >>> app-office/libreoffice-3.5.6.2
     Sat Oct 13 17:50:10 2012 >>> app-office/libreoffice-l10n-3.5.6
     Sat Oct 27 20:02:22 2012 >>> app-office/libreoffice-l10n-3.5.7
     Wed Nov 14 16:19:30 2012 >>> app-office/libreoffice-3.5.7.2

Version 3.5.5.3 could certainly open the 'pages'.
I'm not sure whether I ever opened such a file with version 3.5.6.2
Version 3.5.7.2 doesn't work. When opening a binary 97-2003 Word file the ASCII filter dialog box is presented.

So it appears to be a regression indeed.
I hope this helps.
Regards,
Toon.