Re: Abiword documentation

From: Dominic Lachowicz <domlachowicz_at_gmail.com>
Date: Tue Dec 09 2008 - 20:58:13 CET

I wouldn't worry about it as much as I might worry about the Death of
Privacy in the 21st century :)

Seriously, though. MsWord OLE docs have 2 metadata streams, called
"\05SummaryInformation" and "\05DocumentSummaryInformation". Both of
them happen to have a codepage, so the code prints the codepage twice.

http://www.abisource.com/viewvc/wv/trunk/wvSummary.c?view=markup
around line 212.

Cheers,
Dom

On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 10:36 AM, Simson Garfinkel (CIV)
<slgarfin@nps.edu> wrote:
>
> Greetings. I am writing to you about the wvSummary program.
>
> We have noticed that wvSummary on most .doc files reports the msole:codepage
> twice. For example, consider:
>
> $ wvSummary Translation_of_Aweis_Letter_1_.doc
> Metadata for Translation_of_Aweis_Letter_1_.doc:
> Editing Duration = 2009-04-22T19:33:48Z
> msole:codepage = 936
> Generator = "Microsoft Office Word"
> Last Modified = 2006-10-03T18:50:00Z
> Creator = "Captain Weli"
> Revision = "2"
> Number of Pages = 1
> Number of Words = 782
> Title = "ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF SOMALIA"
> Created = 2006-10-03T18:50:00Z
> Subject = ""
> Template = "Normal"
> Keywords = ""
> Description = ""
> Number of Characters = 4462
> Security Level = 4462
> Last Saved by = "hi"
> msole:codepage = 936
> Number of Lines = 37
> Number of Paragraphs = 10
> Unknown1 = 5234
> Company = "Department of State"
> Scale = FALSE
> Links Dirty = FALSE
> Unknown3 = FALSE
> Unknown6 = FALSE
> Unknown7 = 726502
>
> (From http://cryptome.info/wikileaks/wikileaks-leak.htm)
>
> Do you know why this is happening? Is it a bug in the program? Is it
> something that we need to worry about?
>
> Thank you very much.
>
> Regards,
>
>
> Simson Garfinkel
>
>

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