Created attachment 110531 [details] PPT before 2000, from www.blackhat.com/presentations/bh-usa-97/chrisg.ppt I try to open the attached file and it opens in Writer instead. OS: Win 8.1 LO: 4.3.4 I deleted ppt and pptx from registry, tried to associate Impress with extension, it didn't help. I tried deleting extension of the file, when asked whc=ich application to use, i selected C:\Program Files (x86)\LibreOffice 4\program\simpress.exe, but it still opened in Writer!? Most likely this is an old PPT format and somehow it triggers Writer instead of Impress.
On pc Debian x86-64 with master sources updated yesterday, I could reproduce this. I noticed these kind of logs: Throwing InvalidHeaderException warn:oox.storage:29922:1:oox/source/helper/zipstorage.cxx:67: ZipStorage::ZipStorage exception opening input storage: VisioDocument: version 0 Found xml parser severity error Document is empty
Is this a valid powerpoint file ? This file can't even be opened with the official powerpoint viewer from microsoft.
Well, this is PowerPoint 4.0 file, and we don't support it right now AFAIK. There should be already a bug about it somewhere. (In reply to MM from comment #2) > Is this a valid powerpoint file ? This file can't even be opened with the > official powerpoint viewer from microsoft. IIRC There is some registry value that enables opening of such files at least in PowerPoint. Have no idea regarding the viewer.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 46520 ***