Re: Reading Excel Documents under Linux

Re: Reading Excel Documents under Linux

[Martin G. McCormick]

	I got it and it works!  I installed it with not so much
as a whimper on a Freebsd system and also on a Debian Linux
system.  There are a number of options in running it and I have
not done much other than verify that it took a .xls binary and
produced a perfectly good html document that lynx read with no
trouble.

	My thanks to Gil and to others who have responded.  If I
had to edit and handle Excel documents every day, I would
probably have to use a JAWS work station, but right now, these
things show up just often enough to be annoying.  I am sure glad
to be able to read them now and I will have to play with the
options to see what all I can do.

Martin

Gil Andre writes:
>
>This is the GNU solution you probably want.
>
>http://www.xlhtml.org/

Re: Reading Excel Documents under Linux

[John J. Boyer]

Hello,
Now how about a Word to html converter for Linux?
John


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Re: Reading Excel Documents under Linux

[Henry Yen]

On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 05:13:44AM -0600, John J. Boyer wrote:
> Now how about a Word to html converter for Linux?

antiword (on freshmeat.net) converts word to text.

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Re: Reading Excel Documents under Linux

[Dave Mielke]

[quoted lines by John J. Boyer on January 10, 2002, at 17:13]

>Now how about a Word to html converter for Linux?

mswordview

And while we're on the topic, there's also pptHtml.

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Re: Reading Excel Documents under Linux

[John J. Boyer]

Dave,
These sound good, but where do I download them?
Thanks.
John
On Thu, 10 Jan 2002, Dave
Mielke wrote:

> [quoted lines by John J. Boyer on January 10, 2002, at 17:13]
>
> >Now how about a Word to html converter for Linux?
>
> mswordview
>
> And while we're on the topic, there's also pptHtml.
>
>

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Re: Reading Excel Documents under Linux

[Dave Mielke]

[quoted lines by John J. Boyer on January 10, 2002, at 18:22]

>These sound good, but where do I download them?

I never remember such things. Knowing their names, I just go to google and look
them up. It's kind of like when I was in university and unable to take notes
(aren't the blind people of today, with notetakers and all, rather spoiled?). I
learned very quickly that I didn't need to remember all of the details, as long
as I remembered the underlying principles and knew how to derive any needed
detail.

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Re: Reading Excel Documents under Linux

[Gil Andre]

On Thu, 10 Jan 2002 17:13:44 -0600 (CST)
"John J. Boyer" <director@chpi.org> wrote:

> Hello,
> Now how about a Word to html converter for Linux?
> John

On my Mandrake machine, there is wvHtml. 

Official site is: http://www.wvware.com/

They have converters that can take a Word file and fubar
it into most Un*x format: PostScript, LateX, plain text,
you name it.

Very good stuff.


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Re: Reading Excel Documents under Linux

[Janina Sajka]

On Thu, 10 Jan 2002, John J. Boyer wrote:

> Hello,
> Now how about a Word to html converter for Linux?
> John

Try http://www.wvware.org

> 
> 
> 

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Re: Reading Excel Documents under Linux

[Janina Sajka]

On Thu, 10 Jan 2002, Dave Mielke wrote:

> [quoted lines by John J. Boyer on January 10, 2002, at 17:13]
> 
> >Now how about a Word to html converter for Linux?
> 
> mswordview


Now know as wv, ostensibly because of pressure from those folks in the 
Northwest U.S.

word perfect for linux

[Angelo Sonnesso]

Does anyone have any info about word perfect forlinux?

Does it work, and how does one get it?

Re: word perfect for linux

[Janina Sajka]

You get it from http://www.corel.com, but it is not accessible as it is 
only graphical -- GNOME or KDE.

On Sun, 13 Jan 2002, Angelo Sonnesso wrote:

> Does anyone have any info about word perfect forlinux?
> 
> Does it work, and how does one get it?
> 
> 
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Re: Reading Excel Documents under Linux

[Jude DaShiell]

Let's see, Dave Raggett wrote tidy-gui available for several platforms and
it is capable of cleaning up the html word generates so that it conforms
to w3c standards.  After that I've heard of people using abbyword and
antiword to get text out of word documents.

Re: Reading Excel Documents under Linux

[Charles McCathieNevile]

Also K-office and openoffice/staroffice

chaals

On Sun, 31 Mar 2002, Jude DaShiell wrote:

  Let's see, Dave Raggett wrote tidy-gui available for several platforms and
  it is capable of cleaning up the html word generates so that it conforms
  to w3c standards.  After that I've heard of people using abbyword and
  antiword to get text out of word documents.




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