How do I fix MS-Word import / export filters (the Filtrix module) on WP 8.x for Linux?
The third-party Filtrix module, because of a programming oversight concerning date-handling, doesn’t work on systems whose current date is set later than September 9, 2001: On attempts to import / export MS-Word files, it fails with error message “Filtrix unable to convert this file”. The problem can be fixed by installing a wrapper by Valentijn Sessink, available at http://olivier.pk.wau.nl/~valentyn/wp8fix/. (This fix isn’t necessary for the 2003-4 “pilot project” re-release, which includes an equivalent fix.) Note: Reportedly, the Filtrix module will not process MS-Word .doc files that were saved in MS-Word with password-protection applied. This is not a bug: Filtrix never handled such files. (Nor can Filtrix handle MS-Word documents with embedded non-MS-Word COM objects such as spreadsheet tables from MS-Excel.) Import will also fail on any file saved in a post-Word97 version of Microsoft’s .doc format. This is not a bug, just an inevitable result of the program’s age and lack of m
