How can I convert LibreOffice Master Document which consists of several .odt files into a single .odt file?
asked Jul 11 '14 at 19:09
The contents of any of the open document formats are simply ZIP files, so one could use unzip to unpack their contents.
To see the contents
$ unzip -l MasterDocumentTemplateDR.odm
Archive: MasterDocumentTemplateDR.odm
Length Date Time Name
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46 02-04-2012 22:16 mimetype
111 02-04-2012 22:16 Pictures/100002000000000C0000000CC1B54C41.gif
97 02-04-2012 22:16 Pictures/100002000000000A0000000AD0B8BA86.gif
10389 02-04-2012 22:16 Pictures/100000000000028F000001ED1B3CF428.jpg
13036 02-04-2012 22:16 Pictures/10000201000000960000005E2C8645FE.png
103 02-04-2012 22:16 Pictures/100002000000000A0000000A1F4FBE6C.gif
1438 02-04-2012 22:16 meta.xml
9005 02-04-2012 22:16 settings.xml
48009 02-04-2012 22:16 content.xml
10830 02-04-2012 22:16 Thumbnails/thumbnail.png
427 02-04-2012 22:16 layout-cache
899 02-04-2012 22:16 manifest.rdf
0 02-04-2012 22:16 Configurations2/popupmenu/
0 02-04-2012 22:16 Configurations2/images/Bitmaps/
0 02-04-2012 22:16 Configurations2/toolpanel/
0 02-04-2012 22:16 Configurations2/statusbar/
0 02-04-2012 22:16 Configurations2/toolbar/
0 02-04-2012 22:16 Configurations2/progressbar/
0 02-04-2012 22:16 Configurations2/menubar/
0 02-04-2012 22:16 Configurations2/floater/
0 02-04-2012 22:16 Configurations2/accelerator/current.xml
155673 02-04-2012 22:16 styles.xml
1808 02-04-2012 22:16 META-INF/manifest.xml
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251871 23 files
To unzip the contents
$ unzip MasterDocumentTemplateDR.odm
$ ls -l
total 248
drwxrwxr-x. 11 saml saml 4096 Jul 11 16:23 Configurations2
-rw-rw-r--. 1 saml saml 48009 Feb 4 2012 content.xml
-rw-rw-r--. 1 saml saml 427 Feb 4 2012 layout-cache
-rw-rw-r--. 1 saml saml 899 Feb 4 2012 manifest.rdf
drwxrwxr-x. 2 saml saml 4096 Jul 11 16:23 META-INF
-rw-rw-r--. 1 saml saml 1438 Feb 4 2012 meta.xml
-rw-rw-r--. 1 saml saml 46 Feb 4 2012 mimetype
drwxrwxr-x. 2 saml saml 4096 Jul 11 16:23 Pictures
-rw-rw-r--. 1 saml saml 9005 Feb 4 2012 settings.xml
-rw-rw-r--. 1 saml saml 155673 Feb 4 2012 styles.xml
drwxrwxr-x. 2 saml saml 4096 Jul 11 16:23 Thumbnails
Converting a ODM to ODT file
If you go under the "File" menu there's a menu item called "Export". Selecting this will bring up the following dialog, from where you can "export" your .odm file to the .odt file format.
Which will result in a .odt file being produced.
$ ls -l
total 136
-rw-rw-r--. 1 saml saml 59383 Feb 4 2012 MasterDocumentTemplateDR.odm
-rw-rw-r--. 1 saml saml 52176 Jul 11 16:54 MasterDocumentTemplateDR.odt
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@MichaelKjörling - the contents of the .odm file are already split up into several .odt files. The only piece this is missing is the mashing of the .odt files into a single one. But to answer that would be highly dependent on what's in the .odt files, IMO. I need more info and for the OP to first acknowledge that they're aware of this. – slm♦ Jul 11 '14 at 20:38
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I can access each individual .odt file in the .odm file. I'm looking for a method to save the .odm file as a big .odt file. – nano - merge me Jul 11 '14 at 20:51
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@MinimusHeximus - what about anything else that's potentially inside it? Notice the example I showed, does your .odm file contain only .odt files? – slm♦ Jul 11 '14 at 20:52
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1@slm No problem - I downvoted the answer because I felt it wasn't useful in answering the question, and with your edits, it now does answer the question so a downvote has no place IMO. – a CVn Jul 12 '14 at 12:11
I had several .odt files. I added them in an .odm file. Then as in the other answer I exported the .odm file into an all_in_one.odt file.
the all_in_one.odt file depends on the original .odt files, if they are deleted all_in_one.odt will be empty. To solve this I pressed F5 then I right clicked on the original .odt file in the Navigator window and chose Edit and unchecked Link and Protected and checked Editable:
answered Jul 12 '14 at 16:13
