loadComponentFromURL resulting in null document

[zoharat]

We have successfully connected to Open Office amd are using it to convert word documents to pdf files.

This works fine for most word documents.

For the attached word document the loadCompoenetFromURL results in a null document.

How do I debug why the resulting document is null? Do I need to pass in additional propperties so that the document gets loaded.

Any help in this regard will greatly help.

Thanks!

[MrProgrammer]

Your "doc" file is a simple ASCII text document and not a Word document. It has the wrong extension — should be "txt" instead of "doc". In Windows try opening it with Notepad and compare that with opening a real Word document in Notepad. In Linux, use the "cat" command to display the file. If you want your program to be able to handle situaitons like this (wrong file extension) you'll probably need to have it inspect the file for Word's "signature" (I don't know what that is) before using OOo to open it as if it were a Word document.

Edit: Even better for Linux, use one of these to display the beginning of the file: head -2 2393086.doc | od -t c head -2 2393086.doc | od -t x1 (I don't have Linux, but I think these commands will work there.)