Hi. In my case I just use catdoc to convert to ascii text and use magicfilter to convert it into the deskjet format. ----- Original Message ----- From: 'Georgina' <gena@xxxxxxxxxx> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Tuesday, June 18, 2002 7:09 AM Subject: Re: Question about antiword > Hi > > Well I missed your post. I guess that the file is related to language > and character sets, going by the name of the file. I've got antiword > installed and it works very nicely. I've just looked and there are no > dependencies relating to character sets. Have you installed locale? > Perhaps, your using a newer version? > > apt-cache show antiword > Package: antiword > Priority: optional > Section: text > Installed-Size: 500 > Maintainer: Bdale Garbee <bdale at gag.com> > Architecture: i386 > Version: 0.32-2 > Depends: libc6 (>= 2.2.4-4) > Filename: pool/main/a/antiword/antiword_0.32-2_i386.deb > Size: 88490 > MD5sum: 7c19befb191b9a5a88e77a7e87310d3e > Description: Converts MS Word files to text and ps > Antiword is a free MS Word reader. > . > It converts the binary files from MS Word 6, 7, 97 and 2000 to text and > Postscript. > > Gena > > > > Blindness Advocacy and Self Help Online www.bashonline.org > > >Hi Dave. I posted about this a while ago and I got no response. I have = > >extensively tested that application, and its broken. I now use a program = > >called catdoc. I forget where you get it, but just do a google search on = > >it. Catdoc works much like cat, and it spits out the text portion of = > >your word document to standard output, which in my case is redirected to = > >a txt file.=20 > >----- Original Message -----=20 > >From: Dave Hunt < <dave.hunt2 at verizon.net> > >To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> > >Sent: Monday, June 17, 2002 5:29 PM > >Subject: Question about antiword > > > > > >> Hi, > >>=20 > >> I just installed this, and tried decoding a Word 2000 file. The > >> program's looking for something called its "mapping file", named > >> "8859-1.txt". Any suggestions? > >>=20 > >> -Dave > >>=20 > >>=20 > >>=20 > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Speakup mailing list > >> Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > >> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > > >_______________________________________________ > >Speakup mailing list > >Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > >http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
