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 Kenny. MSWord an ISO format?  This simply is not true.
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From: "Kenny Hitt" <kennyhitt at knology.net>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Monday, March 17, 2003 11:06 AM
Subject: Re: word documents


> 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 at 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 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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