Question about antiword

Question about antiword

[Dave Hunt <]

Hi,

I just installed this, and tried decoding a Word 2000 file.  The
program's looking for something called its "mapping file", named
"8859-1.txt".  Any suggestions?

-Dave

Re: Question about antiword

[Igor Gueths]

Hi Dave. I posted about this a while ago and I got no response. I have extensively tested that application, and its broken. I now use a program called catdoc. I forget where you get it, but just do a google search on it. Catdoc works much like cat, and it spits out the text portion of your word document to standard output, which in my case is redirected to a txt file. 
----- Original Message ----- 
From: Dave Hunt < <dave.hunt2@verizon.net>
To: <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Monday, June 17, 2002 5:29 PM
Subject: Question about antiword


> Hi,
> 
> I just installed this, and tried decoding a Word 2000 file.  The
> program's looking for something called its "mapping file", named
> "8859-1.txt".  Any suggestions?
> 
> -Dave
> 
> 
> 
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> Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
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Re: Question about antiword

['Georgina']

Hi

Well I missed your post.  I guess that the file is related to language
and character sets, going by the name of the file.  I've got antiword
installed and it works very nicely.  I've just looked and there are no
dependencies relating to character sets.  Have you installed locale?
Perhaps, your using a newer version?

apt-cache show antiword
Package: antiword
Priority: optional
Section: text
Installed-Size: 500
Maintainer: Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com>
Architecture: i386
Version: 0.32-2
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.2.4-4)
Filename: pool/main/a/antiword/antiword_0.32-2_i386.deb
Size: 88490
MD5sum: 7c19befb191b9a5a88e77a7e87310d3e
Description: Converts MS Word files to text and ps
 Antiword is a free MS Word reader.
 .
 It converts the binary files from MS Word 6, 7, 97 and 2000 to text and
 Postscript.

Gena



Blindness Advocacy and Self Help Online www.bashonline.org

>Hi Dave. I posted about this a while ago and I got no response. I have =
>extensively tested that application, and its broken. I now use a program =
>called catdoc. I forget where you get it, but just do a google search on =
>it. Catdoc works much like cat, and it spits out the text portion of =
>your word document to standard output, which in my case is redirected to =
>a txt file.=20
>----- Original Message -----=20
>From: Dave Hunt < <dave.hunt2@verizon.net>
>To: <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
>Sent: Monday, June 17, 2002 5:29 PM
>Subject: Question about antiword
>
>
>> Hi,
>>=20
>> I just installed this, and tried decoding a Word 2000 file.  The
>> program's looking for something called its "mapping file", named
>> "8859-1.txt".  Any suggestions?
>>=20
>> -Dave
>>=20
>>=20
>>=20
>> _______________________________________________
>> Speakup mailing list
>> Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
>> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
>
>
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Re: Question about antiword

[Igor Gueths]

Hi. In my case I just use catdoc to convert to ascii text and use magicfilter to convert it into the deskjet format. 
----- Original Message ----- 
From: 'Georgina' <gena@gena-j.net>
To: <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Tuesday, June 18, 2002 7:09 AM
Subject: Re: Question about antiword 


> Hi
> 
> Well I missed your post.  I guess that the file is related to language
> and character sets, going by the name of the file.  I've got antiword
> installed and it works very nicely.  I've just looked and there are no
> dependencies relating to character sets.  Have you installed locale?
> Perhaps, your using a newer version?
> 
> apt-cache show antiword
> Package: antiword
> Priority: optional
> Section: text
> Installed-Size: 500
> Maintainer: Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com>
> Architecture: i386
> Version: 0.32-2
> Depends: libc6 (>= 2.2.4-4)
> Filename: pool/main/a/antiword/antiword_0.32-2_i386.deb
> Size: 88490
> MD5sum: 7c19befb191b9a5a88e77a7e87310d3e
> Description: Converts MS Word files to text and ps
>  Antiword is a free MS Word reader.
>  .
>  It converts the binary files from MS Word 6, 7, 97 and 2000 to text and
>  Postscript.
> 
> Gena
> 
> 
> 
> Blindness Advocacy and Self Help Online www.bashonline.org
> 
> >Hi Dave. I posted about this a while ago and I got no response. I have =
> >extensively tested that application, and its broken. I now use a program =
> >called catdoc. I forget where you get it, but just do a google search on =
> >it. Catdoc works much like cat, and it spits out the text portion of =
> >your word document to standard output, which in my case is redirected to =
> >a txt file.=20
> >----- Original Message -----=20
> >From: Dave Hunt < <dave.hunt2@verizon.net>
> >To: <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
> >Sent: Monday, June 17, 2002 5:29 PM
> >Subject: Question about antiword
> >
> >
> >> Hi,
> >>=20
> >> I just installed this, and tried decoding a Word 2000 file.  The
> >> program's looking for something called its "mapping file", named
> >> "8859-1.txt".  Any suggestions?
> >>=20
> >> -Dave
> >>=20
> >>=20
> >>=20
> >> _______________________________________________
> >> Speakup mailing list
> >> Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> >> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
> >
> >
> >_______________________________________________
> >Speakup mailing list
> >Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> >http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
> 
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> Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
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Re: Question about antiword

[Dave Hunt <]

Thanks!

I discovered antiword's brokenness, and got the wv package.  Wv has
trouble with some Word elements, but seems to do pretty well.

-Dave