Re: word documents

[Kenny Hitt <kennyhitt@knology.net>]

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@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@ACB.org>
> > > > Reply-To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> > > > To: speakup@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
> > > > >
> > > > >
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> > > -- 
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> > > 
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