Hello, I’ve been using linux mint since almost three weeks and I love it , but the problem with writer is that some docx files have photos which writer doesn’t show, my sister is working with her collegues to write lectures, she took the correction of them and she has to open docx files.
another problem is that some files have their name changed from when was in windows , it begins with some kind of $~ and when we try to open them it opens but the content is strange, we only see ###faXool###… thing.
I read the problem is with microsoft inconsistency but isn’t there a way or a workaround until this get fixed ?
(I have no working linux at hand, and I never used mint.)
Why docx? It is designed to save a lot of basically implementation dependent elements of text documents as they are handled by Word(R), I think. Every time such a file is opened by Writer these elements (structures / objects) must be remapped to the RAM representation as used by LibreOffice and better in concordance with the odf specifications. For saving again a mapping to MS specific structures is required. If you are aware of the fact that not even a simple round trip converting a numerical value (IEEE 754) into a text (containing a decimal representation) and back can be guaranteed to come out with the former value … How should that complicated process be reliable to the needed degree. Avoid the MS formats (OOXML specification). They are invented as a means of fighting a competitor, not as something to enable cooperation.
There is a reason for what the means used reading or writing alien “formats” are named filters (and not converters e.g.): They have inevitably to filter properties that cannot reversibly be converted.
You may want to read this excellent article by “oweng”.