On Thu, 15 Mar 2001, Pavel Epifanov wrote: Hi,
> > --- Victor Wagner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Так возвращаясь к напечатанному, как обмениваться > > > документами с Вордом. Не верю, что перекодировать > > > при чтении SO может корректно, а обратно нет. > > > > Во-первых, формат файла Word97 и выше внутри юникодный, так что > > перекодировке не подлежит. > > Во-вторых, сохраняй в rtf и перекодируй потом какой-нибудь внешней > > хреновиной. У меня на странице вроде валялся перловый скрипт. > > Victor, > > Sorry but I have to repeat again: WinWord formats are not exchangeble even > between different WinWord versions. This covers as DOC format as RTF format, > which are almost the same by data inside with different storage (binary or > text). I have tried to read the same simple _English_ document (DOC and RTF > formats), creted in office by English version of MS Office 97 for NT, by the > same product at home for Win95. You can guess the result. I was able to see, > but not to print or modify! > > So in general one should not rely on these formats at all. > > What should we say about third company products ? :))) > What could we think about complex documents including tables, HTTP references > ? > > With RTF no one other product from tested (Star Office 5.2 Rus, Word Perfect 8 > EN, KWord from KDE2, other small conversion utilities) was able to even read > the document. Try AbiWord 0.7.13 - it should be able to read .doc and .rtf just fine if it doesn't contain tables. > Situation with WinWord 2.0b format (not supported by KWord) is a little bit > better but not much. > > So I decided to use ASCII TEXT or HTML format for creating documents by any > text editor (I use MCEDIT at the moment). > > I have done the test above about 2-3 months ago when needed to distribute my > CV > and my graduate study. It was really terrible because I had to modify the CV > couple times and only could do it on Windows computer. > > > Так там этот pdf не читается Acrobat Reader-ом. Ghostscript-ом - > > читается. > > This is another incompability issue: last week I was not able to read RDF > document created by recent version of Exchange by any Linux tool and also by > any version of AcroRead (Linux or Windows) except the recent one for Windows. > Surprise ? Not at all! > > Be happy! > > Pavel. > > ===== > Yours, > Pavel V. Epifanov. > Best regards, -Vlad