word documents

[ccrawford at acb.org]

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 at ACB.org>
> > > Reply-To: speakup at braille.uwo.ca
> > > To: speakup at 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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> > Jude <dashielljt(at)gmpexpress-dot-net>
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