I was burned by this. There is very little available to non-USA members and it really is not worth it. Regards Graham Lewis Co-ordinator The Centre for the Development of Staff and Academic Practice Aberystwyth University Cledwyn Building (Room G18) Penglais Campus Aberystwyth Ceredigion SY23 3DD Phone: 01970 621802 Mobile: (+44) 7779234032 Twitter: @Ham5ster ________________________________________ From: blinux-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [blinux-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] on behalf of Jason White [jason@xxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: 11 December 2013 00:25 To: Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: quick unrtf question? Geoff Shang <blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >I'm not a Bookshare member as I'm not in the USA. To be clear, you need not be in the USA to become a Bookshare member. However, the range of titles available to you will be restricted to those which Bookshare has permission to distribute internationally - mostly books received directly from publishers, and there are thousands of those. > But if what I've seen >is a typical representation of Bookshare books, it's trivial to convert >these to HTML. > >When I first saw this thread, I was wondering if you were wanting to >convert Word 2007/2010 docx files. These files are really zip files with >an XML document and a bunch of related files. For those: loffice --headless --convert-to html filename.docx This requires LibreOffice to be installed, but it will give you the most accurate conversion available. Of course, the quality of the result is limited by the quality of the original file: many word processor users don't know how to use styles correctly, if at all. _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list