Hi Martin, On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 04:18:50PM -0500, Martin McCormick wrote: > Is there any Unix program that will turn the new > Microsoft Office .docx files in to ASCII, html or anything we > can then turn in to something readible? Sorry I had to go out today, but there are perhaps a couple of solutions (untested with dox): unoconv -- converts between all openoffice formats from a quick scan of the man page. Generated a nice html file of a .doc file for me before, so this looks promising considering oo is always updated to stay current with microsofts new formats! One thing I couldn't do is dump to text, but the following hack should work ok, (untested of course): #!/bin/sh # convert files to txt! unoconv -f html "$1" && # perhaps some checks for args above could be handy lynx -dump "$1" > "$1".txt Uh and you'll have to use the basename package in there I just forgot about that to strip the extentions, go read man basename I think you want. Next option: DISPLAY= abiword -t txt <word.doc> gd luck, let me know if something doesn't work coz half this is just cut and pasted from old archived mails I didn't get around to testing, coz all this stuff works from scripts I have written which shall be updated to use unoconv now I think! -- Daniel Dalton > > Microsoft's new version of Office seems to love to put an extra > X at the end of all their output files and that pretty well > describes what the new formats do to applications like catdocs > and xlhtml which have worked fairly well for several years. > > Thanks for any constructive suggestions. > > Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK > Systems Engineer > OSU Information Technology Department Telecommunications Services Group > > _______________________________________________ > Blinux-list mailing list > Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list
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