Re: [LUG] Microsoft Word: reading doc files on GNU/Linux

[Andrew Rogers <andrew@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Tony Atkin wrote:

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> On Monday 18 August 2003 23:47, Andrew Rogers wrote:
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> > In an article describing the information that is hidden in MS Word
> > documents I found some info on converting these to text from Linux.
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> > http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3154479.stm
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> and they also save as html and put it on the web, but guess what, it still 
> includes the revision history hidden in the code.  The easiest way to read 
> this is to find a windows machine and reimport it into word - you can very 
> quickly have the revision history shown in glorious colour.  Not that I 
> would ever take advantage of such a slip-up :)
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> > The programs it mentions are 'antiword' and catdoc'
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> wvWare is another - "man wvWare" should respond if it is on your system.  
> You can convert to lots of different formats with this, such as html 
> (wvHtml), pdf (wvPDF) and of course text (wvText).  Very useful if you 
> can't be bothered to fire up OpenOffice.
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>  

Those programs look interesting particularly wvLatex, I'd like to see 
how well wvLatex works on a complicated Word doc with pictures, tables 
and all the works.

Regards
Andrew Rogers


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