From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from out003pub.verizon.net ([206.46.170.103] helo=out003.verizon.net) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18ujHx-0002e3-00 for ; Sun, 16 Mar 2003 20:19:41 -0500 Received: from danny-.pobox.com ([151.205.247.254]) by out003.verizon.net (InterMail vM.5.01.05.27 201-253-122-126-127-20021220) with ESMTP id <20030317011907.MKNS3697.out003.verizon.net@danny-.pobox.com> for ; Sun, 16 Mar 2003 19:19:07 -0600 Message-Id: <5.2.0.9.2.20030316201205.00a24910@incoming.verizon.net> X-Sender: vze28tvh@incoming.verizon.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.2.0.9 Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2003 20:12:39 -0500 To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca From: Danny Crone Subject: Re: word documents In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20030316112013.025057c0@198.144.194.210> References: <15988.10894.462403.836384@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed X-Authentication-Info: Submitted using SMTP AUTH at out003.verizon.net from [151.205.247.254] at Sun, 16 Mar 2003 19:19:05 -0600 Sender: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca Errors-To: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: What about Star Office? Is there a form of Star Office we could use? At 11:22 3/16/03 -0500, you wrote: >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 , 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@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