#8972 HIGH Not Tri: Write Activity (v. 60) freeze with .doc and .odt documents

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#8972: Write Activity (v. 60) freeze with .doc and .odt documents
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           Reporter:  jasg                      |       Owner:  tomeu        
               Type:  defect                    |      Status:  new          
           Priority:  high                      |   Milestone:  Not Triaged  
          Component:  write-activity (abiword)  |     Version:  not specified
         Resolution:                            |    Keywords:               
        Next_action:  never set                 |    Verified:  0            
Deployment_affected:  Paraguay                  |   Blockedby:               
           Blocking:                            |  
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Comment(by tomeu):

 So, the issue seems to be that Write can read MS Word documents but cannot
 write in that format, so it falls back to abiword's native format but the
 mime-type property is not correctly updated, which causes it to be
 interpreted as (a big chunk of) plain text and that leads to high memory
 usage.

 The patch attached will write in OpenDocument format and correctly update
 the mime-type property, which should fix this issue.

 It's a bit hacky, but please try it and say if this solves the issue.

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Ticket URL: <http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/8972#comment:10>
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