-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Kenny. MSWord an ISO format? This simply is not true. - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kenny Hitt" <kennyhitt@xxxxxxxxxxx> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Monday, March 17, 2003 11:06 AM Subject: Re: word documents > Hi. Jude DaShiell regularly posts wrong information. People have asked > him to get his facts straight before posting and he still doesn't. > Experienced Linux users know he's full of it, but new users won't. > Linux is confusing enough for a new user without someone giving them > wrong information. > > Kenny > > > On Mon, Mar 17, 2003 at 07:31:01AM -0500, ccrawford at acb.org wrote: > > Now let's not get over the top with stuf like"sputing bs." > > > > -- charlie. > > On Sun, 16 Mar > > 2003, Kenny Hitt wrote: > > > > > That's the first time I've heard of this. Where's your proof? > > > Is this just another example of you spouting BS? > > > > > > Kenny > > > > > > > > > On Sun, Mar 16, 2003 at 01:00:44PM -0500, 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 > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > Jude <dashielljt(at)gmpexpress-dot-net> > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > 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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP 8.0 iQA/AwUBPnX0NM6y+CHlb+ZeEQLdKACgtJnTnFz09zMQp3abkyYVe60RkDMAoIpZ yuJ0XSNBUqNP1Lzc+W3s73fA =NLcV -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
