Is there any Utility to Convert .docx Files to ASCII?
Our campus uses the latest Microsoft Office suite which produces XL spreadsheets and Word documents with a different format. All the file names end in x such as important-document.xlx or someotherdoc.docx. catdoc which reads older Word documents spews out a bunch of binary junk and XML code so it is confused. Does anything read these yet besides Microsoft applications? As a computer user who happens to be blind, catdoc and xlhtml were extremely useful in reading Email attachments but more and more documents are these new X forms of the more familiar .doc and .xl docs. Thanks for any ideas. Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK Systems Engineer OSU Information Technology Department Telecommunications Services Group -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Is there any Utility to Convert .docx Files to ASCII?
On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 17:58, Martin McCormick mar...@dc.cis.okstate.edu wrote: Our campus uses the latest Microsoft Office suite which produces XL spreadsheets and Word documents with a different format. All the file names end in x such as important-document.xlx or someotherdoc.docx. catdoc which reads older Word documents spews out a bunch of binary junk and XML code so it is confused. Does anything read these yet besides Microsoft applications? As a computer user who happens to be blind, catdoc and xlhtml were extremely useful in reading Email attachments but more and more documents are these new X forms of the more familiar .doc and .xl docs. The package unoconv has the ooxml2doc and ooxml2odt utilities. Once in doc or odt, you can convert to plain text with the usual apps. Cheers, Kelly Clowers -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: docx files
On Mon, 12 Nov 2007 20:12:35 +0200 Andrei Popescu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Nov 09, 2007 at 06:24:06PM -0600, Nate Bargmann wrote: Other people know I no longer use Windows which has cut the requests I receive for free support to ZERO! I like that. :-) Ha, ha :) I know what you mean, but I still do hardware support and on occasion some Windows support, just to get the occasion to mumble hhmm, how slow, hhhm, must be due to the antivirus you HAVE to run [evil grin]. I often tell people, in the context of desktop / laptop hardware purchase recommendations, You'll want at least 1GB RAM. Actually, I only have 512MB, and my system is much peppier than you'll be able to expect even with 1GB, but that's because I'm running linux ... :) Regards, Andrei Celejar -- mailmin.sourceforge.net - remote access via secure (OpenPGP) email ssuds.sourceforge.net - A Simple Sudoku Solver and Generator -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: docx files
On Fri, Nov 09, 2007 at 06:24:06PM -0600, Nate Bargmann wrote: Other people know I no longer use Windows which has cut the requests I receive for free support to ZERO! I like that. :-) Ha, ha :) I know what you mean, but I still do hardware support and on occasion some Windows support, just to get the occasion to mumble hhmm, how slow, hhhm, must be due to the antivirus you HAVE to run [evil grin]. However, I will gladly help anyone that wishes to use Free Software. Of course, but it gets difficult if the other person is not using Debian or at least a close derivate. Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein) signature.asc Description: Digital signature
OT: weather and politician jokes [was Re: docx files]
On Sat, Nov 10, 2007 at 08:35:38PM -0500, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Fri, Nov 09, 2007 at 07:02:01PM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: cheers, and send some warm weather my way. Where are you so I know which way to point a polititian? I'm in Southern Ontario (Canada) where its far too warm for November. Spokane, WA and yes its actually a little unseasonably warm as well. And I think we'd probably happily *trade* some politicians... but I won't go any farther than that. ;-) A signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: docx files
Thierry Chatelet wrote: Hi, I received a file.docx made with office 2007 Is there any easy way to read it? Thanks Thierry Possibly. It's a zip archive, and Ark will recognise and open it. They can be encrypted but the sender would have told you that. The file document.xml contains the text, though it's a real mess of XML. Oddly, double-click it from Ark, and you should at least see the text, though without line breaks and probably other niceties. Abiword and OOo both show the whole thing, which isn't all that useful. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Thierry Chatelet [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, I received a file.docx made with office 2007 Is there any easy way to read it? Thanks Thierry I have received a few of these recently and I found an rpm on Novell's website at http://download.novell.com/SummaryFree.jsp?buildid=ESrjfdE4U58~ [binary only, of course, I'm afraid]. I just converted it to a tar file using alien and extracted the OdfConverter executable, rather than trying to install the add-on to OpenOffice. It appears to work OK at least for the simple files that I have had to convert so far. Regards, -- Dr Jim Ottaway Research Officer: Translating Neurobiological Research BIOS Centre London School of Economics and Political Science -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: docx files
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/10/07 00:13, Manoj Srivastava wrote: On Fri, 09 Nov 2007 13:32:01 -0600, Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: But it's fun! And to the 95% of people who have no clue what a word processor is it makes you look like a jackass. Being thought a jackass by morons is a compliment. I understand your point. But they are in the majority. So when you see that moron young woman at the club and ask her to dance, she thinks This guy is a jackass. and turns you down, possibly rudely. Or any of a thousand other scenarios where it's a bad idea for 95% of the world to think you're a jackass. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day. Hit him with a fish, and he goes away for good! -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHNbhLS9HxQb37XmcRAhFpAJ4lSRk85U63S/+qTrjICMNL+jZaHwCgx+3c 1fJAESsccHQaxjcknxmOrZE= =WklP -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: docx files
* Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007 Nov 10 08:00 -0600]: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/10/07 00:13, Manoj Srivastava wrote: On Fri, 09 Nov 2007 13:32:01 -0600, Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: But it's fun! And to the 95% of people who have no clue what a word processor is it makes you look like a jackass. Being thought a jackass by morons is a compliment. I understand your point. But they are in the majority. So when you see that moron young woman at the club and ask her to dance, she thinks This guy is a jackass. and turns you down, possibly rudely. Especially if you told her straight away not to send .docx files. ;-) Only about 1 to 5% of those that ask her to dance will get the opportunity. Most likely the average guy will get shot down quite rudely in front of her girlfriends in such a scenerio, but that's another thread. Or any of a thousand other scenarios where it's a bad idea for 95% of the world to think you're a jackass. Most of the populace holds that opinion of everyone else of the populace regardless of the circumstances at any one time so I would bet that more than 50% of the time someone thinks another is a jackass. At least we can give them a reason to *know* we're a jackass. :-D - Nate -- Wireless | Amateur Radio Station N0NB | Successfully Microsoft Amateur radio exams; ham radio; Linux info @ | free since January 1998. http://www.qsl.net/n0nb/ | Debian, the choice of My Kawasaki KZ-650 SR @| a GNU generation! http://www.networksplus.net/n0nb/ | http://www.debian.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: docx files
On Sat, 10 Nov 2007 07:55:23 -0600, Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On 11/10/07 00:13, Manoj Srivastava wrote: On Fri, 09 Nov 2007 13:32:01 -0600, Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: But it's fun! And to the 95% of people who have no clue what a word processor is it makes you look like a jackass. Being thought a jackass by morons is a compliment. I understand your point. But they are in the majority. Being in the majority does not confer on them a patina of desirability or any need to pander to them. The unwashed masses are always there. I would much prefer to xtand out. And yes, I am an elitist. So when you see that moron young woman at the club and ask her to dance, she thinks This guy is a jackass. and turns you down, possibly rudely. I am much better off not hooking up with her, since it would save me from a future charge of homicide. It also allows me to remain free for the intelligent _and_ good looking person of the appropriate gender. Where is the downside? Or any of a thousand other scenarios where it's a bad idea for 95% of the world to think you're a jackass. Since most people are morons, I am not sure I agree with that assessment. manoj -- The final delusion is the belief that one has lost all delusions. Maurice Chapelain, Main courante Manoj Srivastava [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.golden-gryphon.com/ 1024D/BF24424C print 4966 F272 D093 B493 410B 924B 21BA DABB BF24 424C -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/10/07 09:31, Manoj Srivastava wrote: On Sat, 10 Nov 2007 07:55:23 -0600, Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On 11/10/07 00:13, Manoj Srivastava wrote: On Fri, 09 Nov 2007 13:32:01 -0600, Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: But it's fun! And to the 95% of people who have no clue what a word processor is it makes you look like a jackass. Being thought a jackass by morons is a compliment. I understand your point. But they are in the majority. Being in the majority does not confer on them a patina of desirability or any need to pander to them. The unwashed masses are Pander? No. Deal with? Yes. Until I'm rich enough to own an expensive and well-fortified self- sufficient compound/estate out in the country. always there. I would much prefer to xtand out. And yes, I am an elitist. I'm elitist too, but only act like it in private among other intelligent people. Besides, rude is rude. Having the waiter spit in your food because you're a jackass is the height of stupidity, even in smart people. So when you see that moron young woman at the club and ask her to dance, she thinks This guy is a jackass. and turns you down, possibly rudely. I am much better off not hooking up with her, since it would save me from a future charge of homicide. It also allows me to remain free for the intelligent _and_ good looking person of the appropriate gender. Where is the downside? Or any of a thousand other scenarios where it's a bad idea for 95% of the world to think you're a jackass. Since most people are morons, I am not sure I agree with that assessment. I get the distinct impression that you are young and unmarried. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day. Hit him with a fish, and he goes away for good! -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHNdczS9HxQb37XmcRAkl0AKDkJO99bKLuWzNeytwTWhsdZU9b4gCg7Pvz BvRAP3HLSprXUknFSwR0zcg= =LS8Q -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: docx files
On Sat, 10 Nov 2007 10:07:15 -0600, Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On 11/10/07 09:31, Manoj Srivastava wrote: On Sat, 10 Nov 2007 07:55:23 -0600, Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On 11/10/07 00:13, Manoj Srivastava wrote: On Fri, 09 Nov 2007 13:32:01 -0600, Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: But it's fun! And to the 95% of people who have no clue what a word processor is it makes you look like a jackass. Being thought a jackass by morons is a compliment. I understand your point. But they are in the majority. Being in the majority does not confer on them a patina of desirability or any need to pander to them. The unwashed masses are Pander? No. Deal with? Yes. I deal with them by telling them not to send me doc files. Until I'm rich enough to own an expensive and well-fortified self- sufficient compound/estate out in the country. You need to have a compound to protect yourself from idiots sending you doc files? Wow. always there. I would much prefer to xtand out. And yes, I am an elitist. I'm elitist too, but only act like it in private among other intelligent people. Look, if they are morons, their opinions do not count. Sometimes one is unfortunate enough to be in a position where you do have to cater to them (if your boss is a morong, for example, and you need the pay check). The idea then is to arrange not to be under the thumb of one of these people. Usually, as with waiters, one limits oneself to a small, rigid, well understood interface with such people. I order food, you bring food, I pay and leave a good tip. For gods sake don't send me doc files; all I need from you is food and beverages. Besides, rude is rude. Having the waiter spit in your food because you're a jackass is the height of stupidity, even in smart people. Stop going to such restaurants. Usually, very few waiters want to send me doc files. So when you see that moron young woman at the club and ask her to dance, she thinks This guy is a jackass. and turns you down, possibly rudely. I am much better off not hooking up with her, since it would save me from a future charge of homicide. It also allows me to remain free for the intelligent _and_ good looking person of the appropriate gender. Where is the downside? Or any of a thousand other scenarios where it's a bad idea for 95% of the world to think you're a jackass. Since most people are morons, I am not sure I agree with that assessment. I get the distinct impression that you are young and unmarried. Then you should stop jumping to conclusions. manoj -- Somehow, the world always affects you more than you affect it. Manoj Srivastava [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.golden-gryphon.com/ 1024D/BF24424C print 4966 F272 D093 B493 410B 924B 21BA DABB BF24 424C -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: docx files
On Fri, Nov 09, 2007 at 01:32:01PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: On 11/09/07 11:07, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Fri, Nov 09, 2007 at 11:26:35AM +0100, Thierry Chatelet wrote: On Friday 09 November 2007 09:45, Arijit Sarkar wrote: On Wed, 2007-11-07 at 22:14 +0100, Thierry Chatelet wrote: Hi, I received a file.docx made with office 2007 Is there any easy way to read it? Thanks Thierry Why don't you tell the sender to send it again in different format? Since, docx is not a standard format, it's not possible for many soft wares to offer read/write support. ... This is what I did, for shure, with all needed explanation about standard, and what was wrong with this format. But, we will get more and more of those, and I was wondering if i was any easy way to read these documents. Installing Wine looks like one way, but I am not going to take it.So, for now I will ask senders not to use this format. I have done this as well, and will likely continue to do so. In fact, I've started asking people who send .doc files that I *can* read to resend them just on principle. I particularly enjoy responding with a oh really? your word processor can't save files in an ISO standard format? how unfortunate, perhaps you should look into a different word processor... and chuckle with glee. Of course, I'm in a situation where I can afford to do this. I know others are not :( But it's fun! And to the 95% of people who have no clue what a word processor is it makes you look like a jackass. I have an advantage here in that I don't *have* to deal with the issue much at all and when I do, it's exclusively a situation where someone I'm paying is doing it, so I get to be an ornery customer. I also am lucky in that I just don't care what they think. Florian is right, that is indeed part of the fun. And its also an opportunity to educate people. It usually ends up that we have a nice discussion about it all and they go away either curious to learn more or thinking that I'm a slightly loony but good natured fellow. As to liking being a jackass, well, I'll admit there is a certain satisfaction to it sometimes. But don't assign more malice to my actions than there actually is. And I'll drop it there. except to point out: Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day. Hit him with a fish, and he goes away for good! most people who hit others with fishes are either members of Monty Python or considered to be jackasses... ;) cheers, and send some warm weather my way. A signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: docx files
On Fri, Nov 09, 2007 at 07:02:01PM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: cheers, and send some warm weather my way. Where are you so I know which way to point a polititian? I'm in Southern Ontario (Canada) where its far too warm for November. Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: docx files
On Wed, 2007-11-07 at 22:14 +0100, Thierry Chatelet wrote: Hi, I received a file.docx made with office 2007 Is there any easy way to read it? Thanks Thierry Why don't you tell the sender to send it again in different format? Since, docx is not a standard format, it's not possible for many soft wares to offer read/write support. If possible, tell him to send the document in some ISO standard document format like, Open Document Format. If not possible, then at least in Office2003 format. -- Arijit Sarkar [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kolkata, India -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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On Friday 09 November 2007 09:45, Arijit Sarkar wrote: On Wed, 2007-11-07 at 22:14 +0100, Thierry Chatelet wrote: Hi, I received a file.docx made with office 2007 Is there any easy way to read it? Thanks Thierry Why don't you tell the sender to send it again in different format? Since, docx is not a standard format, it's not possible for many soft wares to offer read/write support. If possible, tell him to send the document in some ISO standard document format like, Open Document Format. If not possible, then at least in Office2003 format. -- Arijit Sarkar [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kolkata, India Hi, This is what I did, for shure, with all needed explanation about standard, and what was wrong with this format. But, we will get more and more of those, and I was wondering if i was any easy way to read these documents. Installing Wine looks like one way, but I am not going to take it.So, for now I will ask senders not to use this format. Thierry -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: docx files
On Fri, Nov 09, 2007 at 11:26:35AM +0100, Thierry Chatelet wrote: On Friday 09 November 2007 09:45, Arijit Sarkar wrote: On Wed, 2007-11-07 at 22:14 +0100, Thierry Chatelet wrote: Hi, I received a file.docx made with office 2007 Is there any easy way to read it? Thanks Thierry Why don't you tell the sender to send it again in different format? Since, docx is not a standard format, it's not possible for many soft wares to offer read/write support. ... This is what I did, for shure, with all needed explanation about standard, and what was wrong with this format. But, we will get more and more of those, and I was wondering if i was any easy way to read these documents. Installing Wine looks like one way, but I am not going to take it.So, for now I will ask senders not to use this format. I have done this as well, and will likely continue to do so. In fact, I've started asking people who send .doc files that I *can* read to resend them just on principle. I particularly enjoy responding with a oh really? your word processor can't save files in an ISO standard format? how unfortunate, perhaps you should look into a different word processor... and chuckle with glee. Of course, I'm in a situation where I can afford to do this. I know others are not :( But it's fun! A signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: docx files
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/09/07 11:07, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Fri, Nov 09, 2007 at 11:26:35AM +0100, Thierry Chatelet wrote: On Friday 09 November 2007 09:45, Arijit Sarkar wrote: On Wed, 2007-11-07 at 22:14 +0100, Thierry Chatelet wrote: Hi, I received a file.docx made with office 2007 Is there any easy way to read it? Thanks Thierry Why don't you tell the sender to send it again in different format? Since, docx is not a standard format, it's not possible for many soft wares to offer read/write support. ... This is what I did, for shure, with all needed explanation about standard, and what was wrong with this format. But, we will get more and more of those, and I was wondering if i was any easy way to read these documents. Installing Wine looks like one way, but I am not going to take it.So, for now I will ask senders not to use this format. I have done this as well, and will likely continue to do so. In fact, I've started asking people who send .doc files that I *can* read to resend them just on principle. I particularly enjoy responding with a oh really? your word processor can't save files in an ISO standard format? how unfortunate, perhaps you should look into a different word processor... and chuckle with glee. Of course, I'm in a situation where I can afford to do this. I know others are not :( But it's fun! And to the 95% of people who have no clue what a word processor is it makes you look like a jackass. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day. Hit him with a fish, and he goes away for good! -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHNLWxS9HxQb37XmcRAtFhAKCl4OryLMxyeKyDEs81b9oNwvT4sACfeh0o BLbCt55EnMUCrRzajWe09+w= =mpNc -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: docx files
On Fri, Nov 09, 2007 at 13:32:01 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: On 11/09/07 11:07, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: [...] I have done this as well, and will likely continue to do so. In fact, I've started asking people who send .doc files that I *can* read to resend them just on principle. I particularly enjoy responding with a oh really? your word processor can't save files in an ISO standard format? how unfortunate, perhaps you should look into a different word processor... and chuckle with glee. Of course, I'm in a situation where I can afford to do this. I know others are not :( But it's fun! And to the 95% of people who have no clue what a word processor is it makes you look like a jackass. Surely that is part of the fun, no? -- Regards,| http://users.icfo.es/Florian.Kulzer Florian | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/09/07 14:03, Florian Kulzer wrote: On Fri, Nov 09, 2007 at 13:32:01 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: On 11/09/07 11:07, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: [...] I have done this as well, and will likely continue to do so. In fact, I've started asking people who send .doc files that I *can* read to resend them just on principle. I particularly enjoy responding with a oh really? your word processor can't save files in an ISO standard format? how unfortunate, perhaps you should look into a different word processor... and chuckle with glee. Of course, I'm in a situation where I can afford to do this. I know others are not :( But it's fun! And to the 95% of people who have no clue what a word processor is it makes you look like a jackass. Surely that is part of the fun, no? Only if you *like* being a jackass. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day. Hit him with a fish, and he goes away for good! -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHNMXwS9HxQb37XmcRAjI/AJ9zHc8XINmOXf1Malbdp88xEIqzrwCgy044 gC9PmV1sHaXXQ+3O6ubp4yQ= =blQN -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: docx files
On Friday 09 November 2007 20:32, Ron Johnson wrote: On 11/09/07 11:07, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Fri, Nov 09, 2007 at 11:26:35AM +0100, Thierry Chatelet wrote: On Friday 09 November 2007 09:45, Arijit Sarkar wrote: On Wed, 2007-11-07 at 22:14 +0100, Thierry Chatelet wrote: Hi, I received a file.docx made with office 2007 Is there any easy way to read it? Thanks Thierry Why don't you tell the sender to send it again in different format? Since, docx is not a standard format, it's not possible for many soft wares to offer read/write support. ... This is what I did, for shure, with all needed explanation about standard, and what was wrong with this format. But, we will get more and more of those, and I was wondering if i was any easy way to read these documents. Installing Wine looks like one way, but I am not going to take it.So, for now I will ask senders not to use this format. I have done this as well, and will likely continue to do so. In fact, I've started asking people who send .doc files that I *can* read to resend them just on principle. I particularly enjoy responding with a oh really? your word processor can't save files in an ISO standard format? how unfortunate, perhaps you should look into a different word processor... and chuckle with glee. Of course, I'm in a situation where I can afford to do this. I know others are not :( But it's fun! And to the 95% of people who have no clue what a word processor is it makes you look like a jackass. -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Hi Ron, I started this tread, and I am afraid that your answer starts the troll of this WE. I agree with you, and these was the first docx that came, and came from my brother. He is well aware of the problem, and is waiting for retirement ( 6 month) to boot $W out of his PC. So, this one was no problem, my question was more to have a headsight of what his going to happend more and more... Now, not to give me more than I deserve: I started with Debian about 3 years ago. Looking a fool in my small village. ( 500 people living here.) Now there are 14 PC with Debian only, and 3 with double boot. And all those people are triing to explain to familly and friends what's wrong with $W and it's power not to respect any standard, even if it was agreed and signed by Bill. Well, as a 'good french' I am making a revolution..! in my village Thierry PS: Sorry I don't use emoticon!! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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* Thierry Chatelet [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007 Nov 09 15:11 -0600]: Now, not to give me more than I deserve: I started with Debian about 3 years ago. Looking a fool in my small village. ( 500 people living here.) Now there are 14 PC with Debian only, and 3 with double boot. And all those people are triing to explain to familly and friends what's wrong with $W and it's power not to respect any standard, even if it was agreed and signed by Bill. Well, as a 'good french' I am making a revolution..! in my village Congrats, Thierry. I haven't made quite that much progress, but I do have my brother on Debian and another Debian machine we share. He gets along just fine. Other people know I no longer use Windows which has cut the requests I receive for free support to ZERO! I like that. :-) However, I will gladly help anyone that wishes to use Free Software. - Nate -- Wireless | Amateur Radio Station N0NB | Successfully Microsoft Amateur radio exams; ham radio; Linux info @ | free since January 1998. http://www.qsl.net/n0nb/ | Debian, the choice of My Kawasaki KZ-650 SR @| a GNU generation! http://www.networksplus.net/n0nb/ | http://www.debian.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: docx files
On Fri, 09 Nov 2007 13:32:01 -0600, Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: But it's fun! And to the 95% of people who have no clue what a word processor is it makes you look like a jackass. Being thought a jackass by morons is a compliment. manoj -- In case of fire, stand in the hall and shout Fire! The Kidner Report Manoj Srivastava [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.golden-gryphon.com/ 1024D/BF24424C print 4966 F272 D093 B493 410B 924B 21BA DABB BF24 424C -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: docx files
On Thu, Nov 08, 2007 at 12:38:22AM +0100, Thierry Chatelet wrote: On Thursday 08 November 2007 00:29, Ron Johnson wrote: On 11/07/07 17:01, Thierry Chatelet wrote: Hi, I received a file.docx made with office 2007 Is there any easy way to read it? I think that SUSE has a closed-source plugin for OOo. Hummm, excuse my ignorence, what do you mean by closed-source ? Opposite of open source? -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Ok, still that stupid (on my part) problem between free and open. Harrr, maybe one day I will become better!!! thanks for the answer Thierry The basic idea is that Free software and Open source both have open source code. But Free software is political whereas Open souce is technological. (this can be expanded to a whole thread comparing them, but I leave that to the interested reader) -K -- | .''`. == Debian GNU/Linux == | my web site: | | : :' : The Universal |mysite.verizon.net/kevin.mark/| | `. `' Operating System| go to counter.li.org and | | `-http://www.debian.org/ |be counted! #238656 | | my keyserver: subkeys.pgp.net | my NPO: cfsg.org | |join the new debian-community.org to help Debian! | |___ Unless I ask to be CCd, assume I am subscribed ___| -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
docx files
Hi, I received a file.docx made with office 2007 Is there any easy way to read it? Thanks Thierry -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: docx files
Hi, I received a file.docx made with office 2007 Is there any easy way to read it? I think that SUSE has a closed-source plugin for OOo. Hummm, excuse my ignorence, what do you mean by closed-source ? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: docx files
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/07/07 15:14, Thierry Chatelet wrote: Hi, I received a file.docx made with office 2007 Is there any easy way to read it? I think that SUSE has a closed-source plugin for OOo. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day. Hit him with a fish, and he goes away for good! -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHMkE/S9HxQb37XmcRAjACAKDGr6Mh00/OLRWHGnADdrH0pBna3ACePEUl O0H1DmjVWAL7ihwoLDxaSEA= =Ckw0 -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: docx files
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/07/07 17:01, Thierry Chatelet wrote: Hi, I received a file.docx made with office 2007 Is there any easy way to read it? I think that SUSE has a closed-source plugin for OOo. Hummm, excuse my ignorence, what do you mean by closed-source ? Opposite of open source? - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day. Hit him with a fish, and he goes away for good! -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHMkpDS9HxQb37XmcRAngbAJ9Gyf3VW7ZZVuji1vYREPhczA1J7ACeL0lu 49+jkTyO6l142WnCcF/HX78= =XG25 -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: docx files
On Thursday 08 November 2007 00:29, Ron Johnson wrote: On 11/07/07 17:01, Thierry Chatelet wrote: Hi, I received a file.docx made with office 2007 Is there any easy way to read it? I think that SUSE has a closed-source plugin for OOo. Hummm, excuse my ignorence, what do you mean by closed-source ? Opposite of open source? -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Ok, still that stupid (on my part) problem between free and open. Harrr, maybe one day I will become better!!! thanks for the answer Thierry -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: docx files
On Wed, Nov 07, 2007 at 10:14:55PM +0100, Thierry Chatelet wrote: Hi, I received a file.docx made with office 2007 Is there any easy way to read it? Thanks Thierry Microsoft has a free converter. http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=941B3470-3AE9-4AEE-8F43-C6BB74CD1466displaylang=en I have no idea whether they work under WINE, but if they do your problem is solved. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Read my blog at nitpickingblog.blogspot.com. Reviews! Observations! Stupid mistakes you can correct! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
