???????? Tue, 26 Jun 2012 14:35:51 +0300, Krakenberger, Bertil <Bertil.Krakenberger at atkinsglobal.com>:
> Hello! > When I try to compare two ordinary Word files, their contents are > presented in KDiff3 in gibberish, like this > K?? c[1]c~?*???G?!?;p??cJ?d??? > ________________________________ > ??s`?. When I take clips from the same files and paste them into the > program instead, they look perfectly normal. How comes? > Hi, If you meant Microsoft Word (*.doc), please use some preprocessor (e.g. antiword) to extract the text first. http://www.ghacks.net/2009/06/08/use-antiword-to-extract-text-from-doc-files/ You can choose the preprocessor by pressing "Configure..." in the following window: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/55247264/kdiff31.png Then choose "Diff" page and enter "Preprocessor command:": http://dl.dropbox.com/u/55247264/kdiff32.png This works, for sure, with any other format. You just have to choose text extractor. That's a great and very flexible feature of Kdiff3. And surely, it is explained in documentation to the application: http://docs.kde.org/development/en/extragear-utils/kdiff3/preprocessors.html Hope this helps. Best regards, Yuri
