Re: [opendocument-users] simple OO.org document goes awry in MS Office 2007 w/SP2 - what went wrong?

[Sander Marechal <s.marechal@jejik.com>]

marbux wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 2:55 PM, Jan Wildeboer<jwildebo@redhat.com> wrote:
> 
>> However - it would be of great use to have something to work with - while I
>> understand that John cannot share the document ATM, it makes support almost
>> impossible as we cannot really see the problem(s).
> 
> Jan, Corel has a utility for WordPerfect documents that might prove
> useful in these kinds of situations if an equivalent were developed
> for ODF. The tool, WPLook, amongst other features produces a copy of a
> WPD document with all printing characters replaced by the letter "x"
> but leaves the markup intact.  That allows users to submit otherwise
> confidential documents for troubleshooting.
> 
> The same tool also has other features as well, such as the ability to
> strip document metadata, revision history, etc.

I'd love to develop something like this. It shouldn't be that hard at all.

> That would not cure the problem if graphic images are included in the
> document that are also confidential.

The way ODF documents are structured makes it trivial to replace images
automatically. Just replace the file with one dynamically generated and
of equal dimensions.

-- 
Sander Marechal
Officeshots.org