[Issue] Opening Pocket Excel files
Posted: Sun Apr 13, 2008 4:29 pm
I have rather an old iPAQ still running Windows CE 4.20 (2003). It seems this is no longer supported (in terms of Microsoft Office <-> Pocket PC format conversion) now I have "upgraded" to Windows Vista. So I thought this would be an ideal opportunity to start using OpenOffice to access the Pocket PC pocket excel and pocket word files directly.
In trying to load Pocket Excel files using OpenOffice 2.4 I found two issues (on Vista):
I know this filter uses java so I checked that OpenOffice knows about a JVM It is using version 1.6.0_05.
I had found the same issue previously with an earlier version of OpenOffice 2 in Windows 2000.
I tried to use OpenOffice 2.3 on Linux (Fedora 8) and was confused to find that this file type does not seem to be supported at all (it's not even an option in the "files of type" open dialog). On Fedora 8 OpenOffice uses the Free Software Foundation JVM v1.5.0 rather than a Sun one - perhaps this is an issue.
Does any one know whether I should expect OpenOffice to be able to open pocket excel files?
In trying to load Pocket Excel files using OpenOffice 2.4 I found two issues (on Vista):
- (1) OpenOffice doesn't seem to use the .pxl file extension to select the appropriate filter (so a generic text conversion prior to loading into writer is offered)
- (2) Selecting pocket excel using "files of type" in the open dialog results either in an empty document being loaded or "General Error. General input/output error."
I know this filter uses java so I checked that OpenOffice knows about a JVM It is using version 1.6.0_05.
I had found the same issue previously with an earlier version of OpenOffice 2 in Windows 2000.
I tried to use OpenOffice 2.3 on Linux (Fedora 8) and was confused to find that this file type does not seem to be supported at all (it's not even an option in the "files of type" open dialog). On Fedora 8 OpenOffice uses the Free Software Foundation JVM v1.5.0 rather than a Sun one - perhaps this is an issue.
Does any one know whether I should expect OpenOffice to be able to open pocket excel files?