What about Star Office? Is there a form of Star Office we could use? At 11:22 3/16/03 -0500, you wrote: >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 > > >_______________________________________________ >Speakup mailing list >Speakup at braille.uwo.ca >http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
