G'day ieeedino,

Welcome to the Monastery.

I do use the OpenOffice application a lot but have never used OpenOffice::OODoc (so I just installed it).

My system: Apache OpenOffice 4.1.1; OpenOffice::OODoc 2.125; Perl 5.22.0; Mac OS X 10.10.3

To test, I fired up the OpenOffice application, started a new text document, typed "Just a test.", saved as pm_1150577_odt_corruption.odt, and closed. I opened and closed this a couple of times: no problems; none were expected.

I then ran this code: 

#!/usr/bin/env perl

use strict;
use warnings;
use autodie qw{:all};

use OpenOffice::OODoc;

my $document = odfDocument(file => 'pm_1150577_odt_corruption.odt');

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Again, via the application, I opened and closed the file a couple of times. All good.

I then added this line (to the end of the code shown above) and ran the script again: 

$document->save;

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No errors or warnings were emitted on the command line; however, when I then attempted to open the file from the application, I got a popup with a message which starts:

The file 'pm_1150577_odt_corruption.odt' is corrupt and therefore cannot be opened. ...

I can't see anything in "Active bugs for OpenOffice-OODoc" relating to file corruption. I suggest you raise a bug report.

— Ken

In reply to Re: modify odt file with perl OpenOffice::OODoc will corrupt the file by kcott
in thread modify odt file with perl OpenOffice::OODoc will corrupt the file by ieeedino

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