If that is the case, then why is it so difficult to read afile? Not sure. -- Charlie. On Sun, 16 Mar 2003, Jude DaShiell wrote: > Actually, the msword format is one of the iso standards formats. It's a > long time since I've had any dealings with Microsoft so I forgot the > number of the standard they sent me.On Sun, 16 Mar 2003, Charles Crawford > wrote: > > > Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2003 11:22:05 -0500 > > From: Charles Crawford <CCrawford at ACB.org> > > Reply-To: speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > To: speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > Subject: Re: word documents > > > > 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 > > > >
