Cant open .docx file created with docx.js in MS office word, only if i use OpenOffice writter

[dvjuncal]

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[dvjuncal]

when i try to open a docx file created with docx.js api in MS office word, i receive a unspecified error. I created the file with the getting starded basic usage demo.

[anti-the-social]

Hi @dvjuncal Please provide the code so we can reproduce & fix or point out mistakes

[dvjuncal]

They code si the one in "Basic usage" section. I'm using ms office 2007, maybe thats the problema. Code:

import * as fs from "fs"; import { Document, Packer, Paragraph, TextRun } from "docx"; // Documents contain sections, you can have multiple sections per document, go here to learn more about sections // This simple example will only contain one section const doc = new Document({ sections: [{ properties: {}, children: [ new Paragraph({ children: [ new TextRun("Hello World"), new TextRun({ text: "Foo Bar", bold: true, }), new TextRun({ text: "\tGithub is the best", bold: true, }), ], }), ], }], }); // Used to export the file into a .docx file Packer.toBuffer(doc).then((buffer) => { fs.writeFileSync("My Document.docx", buffer); }); // Done! A file called 'My Document.docx' will be in your file

El mié., 24 de noviembre de 2021 18:52, Andrey Savin < @.***> escribió:

Hi @dvjuncal https://github.com/dvjuncal Please provide the code so we can reproduce & fix or point out mistakes

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[dolanmiu]

what is the error?

[dvjuncal]

When i try to open the generated file with ms office word 2007 this message appears:

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*In english it means: *

"The file My Document cannot be opened because there are problems with the contents" "Details: Unspecified Error" "Location: /word/document.xml, line 1, column 3782"

But if i try to open it with OpenOffice Writer, i have no problem.

I think its a compatibility issue with office 2007.

Regards Diego

El jue, 25 nov 2021 a las 13:43, Dolan @.***>) escribió:

what is the error?

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[wxydev1]

https://github.com/dolanmiu/docx/blob/35d987430a05253730b943e703e591d833aa5cb9/src/file/document/body/section-properties/section-properties.ts#L78-L86 seems like office word 2007 doesn't understand "1in", i tried to replace "1in" with specific number, it works fine.

[dolanmiu]

Ok, I will normalise it to use numbers (TWIPS)

[Onyxa]

I do not know if this is intentional but I have also noticed that if I use

....
const buffer = Packer.toBuffer(docxVar);
..

I cannot open the file in Word(only in Open Office), whereas if I use

...
const base64StrDoc = Packer.toBase64String(docxVar) 
...

instead, and then save the file, or stream the file with

...
Buffer.from(base64StrDoc, 'base64')
...

it works just fine. Is toBuffer broken?