http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12209
Summary: Microsoft FileFormatConverter.exe installs but does not work Product: Wine Version: 0.9.58. Platform: PC OS/Version: Linux Status: UNCONFIRMED Severity: normal Priority: P2 Component: -unknown AssignedTo: wine-bugs@winehq.org ReportedBy: dimesio@earthlink.net
Created an attachment (id=11631) --> (http://bugs.winehq.org/attachment.cgi?id=11631) console output when trying to open a docx file in Word 2003
Microsoft's FileFormatConverter.exe gives Office 2003 the ability to open Office 2007 files. I tried installing it to my working Office 2003 wine installation. The installer ran fine, ending with a message that installation was complete. However, when I tried to open a docx file in Word 2003, it aborted with the message "There was an error opening the file." I've attached the console output. Getting this program to work would be very useful to those of us who have to deal with documents from people using Office 2007.
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Lei Zhang thestig@google.com changed:
What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Summary|Microsoft |Microsoft |FileFormatConverter.exe |FileFormatConverter.exe does |installs but does not work |not work
--- Comment #1 from Lei Zhang thestig@google.com 2008-03-26 12:20:04 --- Is FileFormatConverter.exe downloadable? You need Word 2003 for it to work, right?
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--- Comment #2 from dimesio@earthlink.net 2008-03-26 15:55:20 --- Yes, you can download it for free from http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=941b3470-3ae9-4aee-...
It is supposed to work with Office 2000, XP, and 2003, as well as Word Viewer 2003, Excel Viewer 2003, and Powerpoint Viewer 2003.
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--- Comment #3 from dimesio@earthlink.net 2008-04-20 20:31:03 --- Created an attachment (id=12356) --> (http://bugs.winehq.org/attachment.cgi?id=12356) console output when installing fileformatconverter
The install finishes without error messages, but I'm attaching the console output from the install in case it might be helpful.
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--- Comment #4 from dimesio@earthlink.net 2008-04-20 20:31:58 --- Created an attachment (id=12357) --> (http://bugs.winehq.org/attachment.cgi?id=12357) console output when installing fileformatconverter
The install finishes without error messages, but I'm attaching the console output from the install in case it might be helpful.
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--- Comment #5 from dimesio@earthlink.net 2008-04-20 20:33:54 --- Created an attachment (id=12358) --> (http://bugs.winehq.org/attachment.cgi?id=12358) console output when starting Word 2003 and trying to open a docx file
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--- Comment #6 from dimesio@earthlink.net 2008-04-20 20:36:55 --- This is still a problem with 0.9.60, installed on OpenSUSE 10.3 with a clean wineprefix.
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--- Comment #7 from Austin English austinenglish@gmail.com 2008-04-20 22:15:56 --- I installed it with PPT Viewer 2003, but it does't 'see' pptx files. Have you tested this in windows? Do you still run pptviewer 2003, or do you run PPCNVCOM.EXE (this one fails to run because of missing t2embed.dll, haven't investigated that one yet, not near a windows box).
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--- Comment #8 from dimesio@earthlink.net 2008-04-21 19:28:46 --- (In reply to comment #7)
I installed it with PPT Viewer 2003, but it does't 'see' pptx files. Have you tested this in windows? Do you still run pptviewer 2003, or do you run PPCNVCOM.EXE (this one fails to run because of missing t2embed.dll, haven't investigated that one yet, not near a windows box).
I use it with Office 2003, primarily Word 2003. It works perfectly in Windows--once the converter is installed, Word 2003 can open and save docx files, Powerpoint 2003 can open and save pptx files, and Excel 2003 can open and save xlsx files.
I hadn't tested Excel or Powerpoint in wine before, but I just did, and both ended with an error message about being unable to open the file. Powerpoint's error message specifically complained "No text converter is installed for this file type". So even though the installer says the converter is installed, Word, Excel, and Powerpoint for some reason can't use it.
This problem may be part of a general problem with plugins in Word 2003. The AppDB has one report that specifically mentions plugins not working, and there is an open bug (5264) about the equation editor not working.
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Brad bradlambeth@gmail.com changed:
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--- Comment #9 from Brad bradlambeth@gmail.com 2008-07-07 14:00:40 --- You can get word converter and excel converter to work by downloading a zip file called microsoft.vc80.crt.zip from the microsoft website or anywhere online.
Extract the contents to the Office12 folder. Basically what this does is creates the manifest file that the converters need to load the c libraries.
I still haven't figured out powerpoint converter, something to do with t2embed.dll.
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--- Comment #10 from dimesio@earthlink.net 2008-07-07 14:50:14 --- (In reply to comment #9)
You can get word converter and excel converter to work by downloading a zip file called microsoft.vc80.crt.zip from the microsoft website or anywhere online.
Extract the contents to the Office12 folder. Basically what this does is creates the manifest file that the converters need to load the c libraries.
Doesn't work for me. I tried it on a fresh install of Word 2003 and FileFormatConverter.exe, and still get the same error. This is on Wine 1.1.0.
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--- Comment #11 from Brad bradlambeth@gmail.com 2008-07-07 14:51:30 --- Do you have office 2003 sp3 installed?
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--- Comment #12 from dimesio@earthlink.net 2008-07-07 17:28:51 --- (In reply to comment #11)
Do you have office 2003 sp3 installed?
Office 2003 SP3 will not install; that's bug #13590. I just tried, and it's still an issue in 1.1.0. And SP3 shouldn't be needed for this--it's not needed in Windows.
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--- Comment #13 from dimesio@earthlink.net 2008-07-29 19:26:28 --- Still an issue in 1.1.2.
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--- Comment #14 from Austin English austinenglish@gmail.com 2008-09-13 15:44:03 --- (In reply to comment #13)
Still an issue in 1.1.2.
Bug 13590 is fixed. Mine giving it another go?
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dimesio@earthlink.net changed:
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--- Comment #15 from dimesio@earthlink.net 2008-09-13 18:37:19 --- Created an attachment (id=16084) --> (http://bugs.winehq.org/attachment.cgi?id=16084) console log for failed install in 1.1.4
Under 1.1.4, with a fresh install of Office 2003 to a clean wineprefix, FileFormatConverter.exe won't even install--it ends with a message that the install failed. It does this with or without Office SP3 installed, and the console output is exactly the same either way. Unzipping microsoft.vc80.crt.zip to the Office 12 directory (per comment #9) also makes no difference.
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dimesio@earthlink.net changed:
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--- Comment #16 from dimesio@earthlink.net 2008-09-27 09:03:42 --- Created an attachment (id=16299) --> (http://bugs.winehq.org/attachment.cgi?id=16299) console log attempting to open a docx file, 1.1.5
FileFormatConverter.exe installs in 1.1.5, but the program still doesn't work, with or without SP3 installed. Console log attached.
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Mclaud2000 mclaud2000@tutopia.com changed:
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--- Comment #17 from Mclaud2000 mclaud2000@tutopia.com 2008-12-08 16:42:26 --- *** This bug has been confirmed by popular vote. ***
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--- Comment #18 from Austin English austinenglish@gmail.com 2009-06-08 11:52:20 --- Is this still an issue in current (1.1.23 or newer) wine?
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--- Comment #19 from Rosanne DiMesio dimesio@earthlink.net 2009-06-08 12:49:05 --- I can't test it on a fresh wineprefix until bug 17600 is fixed. I can tell you that the installer for fileformatconverter fails with an msi error when I try to install it in an existing wineprefix, but I don't know if that's because it's an old wineprefix, the installer for fileformatconverter itself suffers from bug 17600, or there's yet another msi bug affecting the installer.
I'll retest when bug 17600 is fixed.
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Austin English austinenglish@gmail.com changed:
What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Depends on| |17600
--- Comment #20 from Austin English austinenglish@gmail.com 2009-06-08 13:40:33 --- (In reply to comment #19)
I can't test it on a fresh wineprefix until bug 17600 is fixed. I can tell you that the installer for fileformatconverter fails with an msi error when I try to install it in an existing wineprefix, but I don't know if that's because it's an old wineprefix, the installer for fileformatconverter itself suffers from bug 17600, or there's yet another msi bug affecting the installer.
I'll retest when bug 17600 is fixed.
You could use one of the patches to work around it and test...
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Hans Leidekker hans@meelstraat.net changed:
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--- Comment #21 from Hans Leidekker hans@meelstraat.net 2009-06-08 14:17:00 --- It installs fine in a fresh prefix without office.
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--- Comment #22 from Rosanne DiMesio dimesio@earthlink.net 2009-06-08 17:54:23 --- (In reply to comment #21)
It installs fine in a fresh prefix without office.
Maybe, but you can't test it without Office. It's not a freestanding app, it modifies Word, Excel, and Powerpoint 2003 so they can open Office 2007 docs.
I'll try the patch in bug 17600.
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--- Comment #23 from Rosanne DiMesio dimesio@earthlink.net 2009-06-08 21:48:33 --- Tested with today's git and the patch submitted yesterday for bug 17600.
Office 2003 and fileformatconverter.exe both install fine with the patch.
The good news: it's fixed for Word 2003. I was able to open and create docx files with no problem.
The bad news: it's still not fixed for Powerpoint and Excel. Powerpoint complained about no filter being installed for the pptx filetype; Excel said the xlsx file was an unknown format and asked if I wanted to import it as text.
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Rosanne DiMesio dimesio@earthlink.net changed:
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--- Comment #24 from Rosanne DiMesio dimesio@earthlink.net 2009-06-08 21:51:00 --- Created an attachment (id=21667) --> (http://bugs.winehq.org/attachment.cgi?id=21667) console log from trying to open a .pptx file with Powerpoint 2003 after installing fileformatconverter
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--- Comment #25 from Rosanne DiMesio dimesio@earthlink.net 2009-06-08 22:21:36 --- Created an attachment (id=21668) --> (http://bugs.winehq.org/attachment.cgi?id=21668) console log trying to open an .xlsx file with Excel 2003 after installing fileformatconverter
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--- Comment #26 from Hans Leidekker hans@meelstraat.net 2009-06-09 01:42:02 --- Please attach a WINEDEBUG=+msi,+msidb trace from installing FileFormatConverter after Office.
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--- Comment #27 from Rosanne DiMesio dimesio@earthlink.net 2009-06-09 07:18:31 --- Created an attachment (id=21681) --> (http://bugs.winehq.org/attachment.cgi?id=21681) +msi,+msidb trace installing fileformatconverter.exe
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Hans Leidekker hans@meelstraat.net changed:
What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- URL| |http://www.microsoft.com/do | |wnloads/details.aspx?Family | |Id=941b3470-3ae9-4aee-8f43- | |c6bb74cd1466&displaylang=en
--- Comment #28 from Hans Leidekker hans@meelstraat.net 2009-06-09 08:05:45 --- The installer log looks normal. Please try this and report the outcome:
$ cd ~/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files/Microsoft\ Office/Office12/ $ wine Wordconv.exe $ wine excelcnv.exe $ wine PPCNVCOM.EXE
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--- Comment #29 from Rosanne DiMesio dimesio@earthlink.net 2009-06-09 09:01:37 --- Created an attachment (id=21683) --> (http://bugs.winehq.org/attachment.cgi?id=21683) console log from running excelcnv.exe
Wordconv.exe returned one line: fixme:heap:HeapSetInformation 0x110000 1 (nil) 0
excelcnv.exe returned more; log is attached.
PPCNVCOM.EXE returned the following, hanging at the last line (I let it sit for a couple of minutes before I killed it.): fixme:heap:HeapSetInformation 0x110000 1 (nil) 0 fixme:heap:HeapSetInformation 0x110000 1 (nil) 0 fixme:heap:HeapSetInformation 0x110000 1 (nil) 0 fixme:heap:HeapSetInformation 0x110000 1 (nil) 0 fixme:heap:HeapSetInformation 0x110000 1 (nil) 0 fixme:win:EnumDisplayDevicesW ((null),0,0x32f560,0x00000000), stub! fixme:wtsapi:WTSRegisterSessionNotification Stub 0x10032 0x00000000
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Bug 12209 depends on bug 17600, which changed state.
Bug 17600 Summary: MSOffice installer (XP, 2003, 2007) : msi crash in custom action http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17600
What |Old Value |New Value ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |RESOLVED Resolution| |FIXED
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Danila Sentiabov dsent.zen@gmail.com changed:
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--- Comment #30 from Austin English austinenglish@gmail.com 2010-01-04 12:16:58 --- This is your friendly reminder that there has been no bug activity for 6 months. Is this still an issue in current (1.1.35 or newer) wine?
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--- Comment #31 from Rosanne DiMesio dimesio@earthlink.net 2010-01-04 21:30:02 --- (In reply to comment #30)
This is your friendly reminder that there has been no bug activity for 6 months. Is this still an issue in current (1.1.35 or newer) wine?
Yes. Tested in wine-1.1.35-364-g9dc584d. The situation is the same as 6 months ago: it works for Word, not for Powerpoint or Excel.
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richard swanwick r.swanwick@gmail.com changed:
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--- Comment #32 from richard swanwick r.swanwick@gmail.com 2010-05-18 16:49:56 --- Hi,
To get this to work RICHED20.dll needs to be set to native.
In wineconfig select the file PPCNVCOM.EXE in the Office12 folder and in the Libraries tab add RICHED20.dll and set it to (native,builtin)
This allows you to open files by double clicking on them (in Nautilus), but not within Powerpoint itself.
rich
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--- Comment #33 from richard swanwick r.swanwick@gmail.com 2010-05-19 07:07:53 --- (In reply to comment #32)
Hi,
To get this to work RICHED20.dll needs to be set to native.
In wineconfig select the file PPCNVCOM.EXE in the Office12 folder and in the Libraries tab add RICHED20.dll and set it to (native,builtin)
This allows you to open files by double clicking on them (in Nautilus), but not within Powerpoint itself.
rich
Actually the above was for wine-1.1.37.
Just tried 1.1.44 and this only works from the terminal not by double clicking in the file browser
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--- Comment #34 from richard swanwick r.swanwick@gmail.com 2010-05-19 09:53:05 --- (In reply to comment #33)
(In reply to comment #32)
Hi,
To get this to work RICHED20.dll needs to be set to native.
In wineconfig select the file PPCNVCOM.EXE in the Office12 folder and in the Libraries tab add RICHED20.dll and set it to (native,builtin)
This allows you to open files by double clicking on them (in Nautilus), but not within Powerpoint itself.
rich
Actually the above was for wine-1.1.37.
Just tried 1.1.44 and this only works from the terminal not by double clicking in the file browser
Git Bisect shows this killed it!
1e3aba6e7c3207ac5e9d73ddddbde25f5d3d2994 is the first bad commit commit 1e3aba6e7c3207ac5e9d73ddddbde25f5d3d2994 Author: Gerald Pfeifer gerald@pfeifer.com Date: Sat Apr 24 14:11:58 2010 +0200
ole32: Remove variable res which is not really used from CompositeMonikerImpl_Reduce.
Going to open new bug for it
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--- Comment #35 from Rosanne DiMesio dimesio@earthlink.net 2010-05-26 19:09:34 --- Still present in 1.2-rc1. Works for Word, not for Powerpoint or Excel.
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hasi whynot@nurfuerspam.de changed:
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--- Comment #36 from hasi whynot@nurfuerspam.de 2010-09-21 14:10:33 CDT --- Still present in 1.3.3: Works for Word, not for Powerpoint or Excel.
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Rosanne DiMesio dimesio@earthlink.net changed:
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--- Comment #37 from Rosanne DiMesio dimesio@earthlink.net 2011-03-19 08:45:23 CDT --- *** Bug 26480 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
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--- Comment #38 from Saulius K. saulius2@gmail.com 2011-04-05 13:22:57 CDT --- (In reply to comment #34)
Author: Gerald Pfeifer gerald@pfeifer.com Date: Sat Apr 24 14:11:58 2010 +0200
ole32: Remove variable res which is not really used from CompositeMonikerImpl_Reduce.
Going to open new bug for it
Richard, have you reported this already?
For me the bug is still present -- Word filter works OK, Excel and PPT ones don't.
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--- Comment #39 from Rosanne DiMesio dimesio@earthlink.net 2011-07-14 09:13:42 CDT --- Still an issue in 1.3.24 for Excel and Powerpoint 2003; works fine for Word 2003.
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--- Comment #40 from Rosanne DiMesio dimesio@earthlink.net 2012-02-04 21:32:01 CST --- Situation is the same in 1.4-rc2: Word works, Powerpoint and Excel don't.
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--- Comment #41 from Rosanne DiMesio dimesio@earthlink.net 2013-08-19 08:39:33 CDT --- Still present in 1.7.0.
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--- Comment #42 from Austin English austinenglish@gmail.com --- This is your friendly reminder that there has been no bug activity for 1 year. Is this still an issue in current (1.7.31 or newer) wine? If so, please attach the terminal output in 1.7.31 (see http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#get_log).
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--- Comment #43 from Rosanne DiMesio dimesio@earthlink.net --- Still present in 1.7.31 for Excel & Powerpoint; Word still works.
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--- Comment #44 from Rosanne DiMesio dimesio@earthlink.net --- Created attachment 50000 --> https://bugs.winehq.org/attachment.cgi?id=50000 Excel log, 1.7.31
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--- Comment #45 from Rosanne DiMesio dimesio@earthlink.net --- Created attachment 50001 --> https://bugs.winehq.org/attachment.cgi?id=50001 Powerpoint log, 1.7.31
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--- Comment #46 from Rosanne DiMesio dimesio@earthlink.net --- Still present in 1.8-rc1. Word works, Powerpoint and Excel don't.
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--- Comment #47 from Rosanne DiMesio dimesio@earthlink.net --- Still present for Excel and Powerpoint 2003 in 2.0-rc1.
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What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Summary|Microsoft |Microsoft Office |FileFormatConverter.exe |Compatibility Pack for |does not work |Office 2007 File Formats | |does not work for | |PowerPoint or Excel 2003 CC| |focht@gmx.net URL|http://www.microsoft.com/do |https://web.archive.org/web |wnloads/details.aspx?Family |/20061129153904/http://down |Id=941b3470-3ae9-4aee-8f43- |load.microsoft.com/download |c6bb74cd1466&displaylang=en |/9/2/2/9222d67f-7630-4f49-b | |d26-476b51517fc1/FileFormat | |Converters.exe Keywords| |download
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