On Tue, Aug 09, 2011 at 02:36:32PM +0100, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > I often receive information in *.docx format > from my MS using colleagues. Sometimes I can > ask for a pdf (or similar) instead, but not always.
You have a lot of nice options: - Force them to use BSD/Linux ;) - explain them, why docx is shit! - don't read it > > Usually I unzip a docx and then search > through all *xml files to find the > useful data. However, I can't find any > xml styles to use, so I have to convert > the relevant xml file(s) to plain text > by hand. I wonder if anybody can suggest > a better way. Perhaps there's something > in ports that can help. But if you really, really need to read docx, you can try the web application from Microsoft. A few months ago, I got also a lot of docx and I opend it with the microsoft web app; this worked for me to extract the information... More information: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/web-apps/ The downside: you have to sign up on a microsoft service :( cheers -- Christian Barthel Public-Key: http://bc.user-mode.org/bc.asc Mail: b...@nyx.user-mode.org Web: http://bc.user-mode.org _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
