[Libwpd-devel] 0.9.2 ODT files not usable in OS X?

[Edward M. <EM...@co...>]

Here's a curious problem that seems to have developed only in very recent versions of libwpd, though I'm not certain which ones.

I've built wpd2odt from the latest source under OS X. 

When I use wpd2odt to convert any WP file, the resulting ODT file opens correctly in LibreOffice, but it opens as raw text in OS X's TextEdit. This problem did not occur with older versions of wpd2odt (as recently as a few weeks ago).

The same problem occurs when I use OS X's textutil to convert the ODT file to rtf format; presumably OS X uses the same code to display the ODT file in TextEdit that it uses for textutil.

I've put together a ZIP file with samples:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/271144/OSXproblemODT.zip

Now, I understand that libwpd can't fix problems in OS X. But something seems to have changed recently in the way wpd2odt works that causes this problem in TextEdit and textutil.

I can't guess what it might be, but I will be happy to test any files that anyone might want to send me.

Thank you all.

Edward Mendelson