Asiri Rathnayake wrote:
  The images embedded inside Office document, how large
are they? (very
 high-resolution images?) 
in my sample case - not large at all (whole document is 125KB)
  - If they are quite large, you might want to increase
the time-out for
 officeimporter operations (from xwiki.properties file). 
timeout is set to 5 minutes (300000ms)
  - Now, if they are not that large (if the most trivial
images also fail),
 then it'll be great if you can provide us a sample failing document 
i will send you the sample document directly so as not to spam the alias.
  Also, there is a small test you can perform if you
have access to a GUI in
 your computer:
 - Open the failing document in OpenOffice.
 - Save the document as HTML into some place.
 Does above operation work without issues? And what about images, are they
 properly saved? and what type of images are they ? (The last question is
 because OpenOffice has a problem with EMF/WMF image formats on windows and
 linux boxes). 
worked without issues.  the images in this case are PNG and GIF
thanks again for your help
regards
p