.docx from Office 2013

[Jamal Carter]

getting this error from the viewfile macro

viewfile: java.lang.RuntimeException: com.aspose.words.FileCorruptedException: The document appears to be corrupted and cannot be loaded.

currently on confluence 5.2.3

is *.docx supported in confluence for Office 2013, if so what version ?

[jing_hwa_cheok · Accepted solution]

Hi Jamal,

You might have run i to a known bug https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-29242. Confluence office view macro does not display .docx file from office 2013 properly. Here's the explanation taken directly from the bug report.

From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_Open_XML:
"Starting with Microsoft Office 2007, the Office Open XML file formats have become the default[3] target file format of Microsoft Office.[4][5] Microsoft Office 2010 provides read support for ECMA-376, read/write support for ISO/IEC 29500 Transitional, and read support for ISO/IEC 29500 Strict.[6] Microsoft Office 2013 additionally supports both reading and writing of ISO/IEC 29500 Strict.[7]"
It looks like a file with the .docx extension may be either ISO 29500 Transitional or ISO 29500 Strict. Word 2010 only writes the Transitional type of ISO 29500. It looks like Word 2013 could be either Transitional or Strict. See:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd797428.aspx
But in theory Strict is supposed to be a subset of Transitional. So if a Transitional document created by Word 2010 works, you'd think that a Strict one would work too. However, it seems that when they standardized Strict they also made a change to namespaces. That is probably the key to fixing this. For more info see: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/dmahugh/archive/2010/04/06/office-s-support-for-iso-iec-29500-strict.aspx
Also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_Open_XML#Compatibility_between_versionsstates:
"Applications able to read documents compliant to ECMA-376 edition 1 will regard ISO/IEC 29500-4 Transitional documents containing ISO 8601 dates as corrupt."

Hope this clear your doubts.

Regards,
Jing Hwa

[Jamal Carter]

its created and saved in Office 2013. created a plain document with no special formatting that reads "test, test, test". Office 2010 works, 2013 produces this error

[Chung Park Chan]

Is the .docx file previously created through Confluence page export?