Hmmm. I never thought about the proprietary issue with MS-Word. I wonder if we should not be talking with Microsoft to get at least the formatting info available? Oh yeah, didn't Gates give the chinese open source Windows? Hmmm. -- charlie. At 02:41 AM 03/16/2003 -0500, you wrote: >There are Word document viewers for Linux console. The one I use is >called wv. Another is called antiword. No doubt, there are more. >Because Word is a proprietary format, and the specification is not >available, the authors of programs such as wv have had to >reverse-engineer a bit. Because of this, certain things in the Word >document may not decode as well as we'd like. Nonetheless, I use wv >and get reasonable results when converting from Word to html. The >resulting html source is quite bloated, but, it's there. > >For pdf conversion, there's pdftotext. This is part of the xpdf >package, and may already be on your system. Surprise, it was already >on my stock installation of RH 7.2. the one thing I don't like about >pdftotext-s rendering, is that hyperlinks get lost. To preserve the >navigability of pdf documents, I visit <access.adobe.com>, and submit >the url of a pdf document (assuming I've found it on the web) to the >form. What comes back is a nice html rendering (links and all). > > >Hope this helps, > > >-Dave > > >_______________________________________________ >Speakup mailing list >Speakup at braille.uwo.ca >http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
