From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from out1.smtp.messagingengine.com (out1.smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.25]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3EAED109FE for ; Fri, 29 May 2009 07:14:19 -0400 (EDT) Received: from compute1.internal (compute1.internal [10.202.2.41]) by out1.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id E2CD434684B for ; Fri, 29 May 2009 07:14:18 -0400 (EDT) Received: from heartbeat1.messagingengine.com ([10.202.2.160]) by compute1.internal (MEProxy); Fri, 29 May 2009 07:14:18 -0400 X-Sasl-enc: k33yaZFfOfj/I1c9ghzYaF3D2POaK9fJ6tcPudH33LBF 1243595658 Received: from localhost (24-105-233-162.cm.mhcable.com [24.105.233.162]) by www.fastmail.fm (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 72603F874 for ; Fri, 29 May 2009 07:14:18 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 29 May 2009 07:14:17 -0400 From: Chuck Hallenbeck To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." Subject: Re: accessing .docx documents Message-ID: <20090529111417.GA15517@rx.localhost> Mail-Followup-To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." References: <20090526143814.GA19575@rx.localhost> <20090526150536.GA28352@csy.ca> <20090526153447.XFMF23066.eastrmmtao106.cox.net@eastrmimpo02.cox.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Id: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 29 May 2009 11:14:19 -0000 Hi Jason, On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 10:59:48AM +0000, Jason White wrote: > > There is even a Debian package for it. I haven't installed or tested it, > however. > > Package: unoconv > New: yes > State: not installed > Version: 0.3-5 Unoconv on archlinux does the job, but it was tricky to get running. Although it is a command line tool, it does require that an X display be available when it is run. It does in fact convert .docx documents, although that extension does not appear in the list of supported formats. Cheryl Hodiak pointed me to a perl script which does just as well, if not better, than unoconv with .docx files, and does not require any X support. However, it is a single format converter, unlike unoconv. Scheryl's script was called cryptically docx2txt, and is available from sourceforge. Chuck -- The Moon is Waxing Crescent (31% of Full) My web site: www.hallenbeck.ftml.net Microblog: http://identi.ca -------- The reason that every major university maintains a department of mathematics is that it's cheaper than institutionalizing all those people.