Re: [SLUG] Weird Word docs
> "jam" == jam writes: jam> On Tuesday 01 December 2009 09:00:04 slug-requ...@slug.org.au jam> wrote: >> Every now and then I get sent a Word document that I can't just >> ignore, or ask the sender to resend as plain text or PDF or >> something. >> >> Most of the time wvMime can translate the doc so I can read it and >> convert to LaTeX or something sensible. /usr/bin/strings doesa a >> reasonable job where formatting isn't important. >> >> Sometimes however, I get sent documents (usually full of tables) >> that purport to be in portrait orientation, but are actually >> Landscape --- wvMime (and abiWord on my one box with Gnome on it) >> attempt to display the doc on a portrait oriented a4 page, with all >> the text truncated at the right margin. >> >> How do other people deal with these weird documents? Is there an >> easy way to view or convert them (NOT using Gnome or OpenOffice or >> other heavyweight GUI tools)? jam> Although the borg is utterly evil and to be shunned, he does jam> produce some good software. crossover office and office 2007 work jam> so nicely that she-who-must- be-obeyed uses it for her committee jam> work every day with nary a glitch of any sort. Well... I find the user interface completely arcane, both in OpenOffice and in Word on a real windows box. jam> And, as emotionally challanged as I am to say it, (thinks of jam> Cleese, the window and a Fish Called Wanda) as she was an utter jam> neophyte (with office tools) who has never used winders in any jam> shape or form (so much hand holding was needed) it has been very jam> much easier to teach her word than OO. (I too have never neen a jam> winders user and have used OO since it was li'l) H. Hmmm. I used to teach vi and troff+mm to neophytes. They got the hang fairly quickly in general. jam> The problem with OO is that it often screwed doc or docx jam> documents so they look nothing like the orriginal. Not good when jam> you're doing the minutes or agenda from templates. the problem with Oo is it ooms on my laptop (128M ram), and has a really weird structure to its menus and incomprehensible icons on my desktop (plus pulling in half a gig of libraries, etc.) # sudo apt-get install openoffice.org-writer ... Need to get 576.1MB of archives. After this operation, 1.2GB of additional disk space will be used. Is there a lighter-weight way to view word documents? Peter C -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Weird Word docs
Hi Peter, You can try catdoc instead of strings, you will get a nicer output. catdoc will try to recognise tables and give some format. unoconv seems to be a good option to convert doc[x] documents to some other format, but I think you will need more than 1 GB after installation since it pulls a lot of packages. How do you read .docx documents without OOo? Or you install OOo libraries and convert the document to other format? Rodolfo Martínez On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 4:09 PM, Peter Chubb wrote: > > Hi, > Every now and then I get sent a Word document that I can't > just ignore, or ask the sender to resend as plain text or PDF or > something. > > Most of the time wvMime can translate the doc so I can read it and > convert to LaTeX or something sensible. /usr/bin/strings doesa a reasonable > job where formatting isn't important. > > Sometimes however, I get sent documents (usually full of tables) that > purport to be in portrait orientation, but are actually Landscape --- > wvMime (and abiWord on my one box with Gnome on it) attempt to display > the doc on a portrait oriented a4 page, with all the text truncated at > the right margin. > > How do other people deal with these weird documents? Is there an easy > way to view or convert them (NOT using Gnome or OpenOffice or other > heavyweight GUI tools)? > -- > Dr Peter Chubb www.nicta.com.au peter DOT chubb AT nicta.com.au > http://www.ertos.nicta.com.au ERTOS within National ICT Australia > From Imagination to Impact Imagining the (ICT) Future > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html > -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Re: Education Expo 2010 in Sydney
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Re: [SLUG] Weird Word docs
> "Rodolfo" == Rodolfo Martínez writes: Rodolfo> How do you read .docx documents without OOo? Or you install Rodolfo> OOo libraries and convert the document to other format? wvMime does the `right thing' most of the time. It converts to LaTeX then to postscript or html. Alternatively if you already have a gnome desktop, abiword works most of the time, but its user interface is modelled on that of Word(TM) (and is therefore horrible to me). -- Dr Peter Chubb www.nicta.com.aupeter DOT chubb AT nicta.com.au http://www.ertos.nicta.com.au ERTOS within National ICT Australia -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Weird Word docs
Peter Chubb wrote:
Rodolfo> How do you read .docx documents without OOo? Or you install
Rodolfo> OOo libraries and convert the document to other format?
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Alternatively if you already have a gnome desktop, abiword works most
of the time, but its user interface is modelled on that of Word(TM) (and is
therefore horrible to me).
If you just want the text of the document then unzip the file and
convert the document.xml to text.
Below is some (old) code which does this.
In PHP:
function importDOCX($file_info)
{
shell_exec('mkdir /tmp/docx');
shell_exec("cp " . DOC_ROOT . 'documents/' . str_replace(' ',
'_', $file_info['file_group']) . '/' . $file_info['sub_folder_path'] .
'/' . str_replace(')', '\)', str_replace('(', '\(', str_replace(' ', '\
', $file_info['filename']) .' /tmp/docx/')));
shell_exec('unzip /tmp/docx/' . str_replace(')', '\)',
str_replace('(', '\(', str_replace(' ', '\ ', $file_info['filename'])))
. ' -d /tmp/docx/');
$file = file_get_contents('/tmp/docx/word/document.xml');
shell_exec('rm -fR /tmp/docx');
$file = str_replace('
}
Also you can use antiword from the command line:
function importDOC($file_info)
{
return shell_exec("/usr/bin/antiword " . DOC_ROOT . 'documents/'
. str_replace(' ', '_', $file_info['file_group']) . '/' .
$file_info['sub_folder_path'] . '/' . str_replace(')', '\)',
str_replace('(', '\(', str_replace(' ', '\ ', $file_info['filename'];
}
These are both converts to text for searching purposes from some legacy
code. The do meet the criteria on minimum install.
Cheers
P
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Re: [SLUG] Re: Education Expo 2010 in Sydney
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[SLUG] Brasero creating coasters :(
I'm burning a DVD with about 1.2gig of tif and jpg files. Brasero proceeds to completion. When I insert the DVD, some of the files (images) give this error when double clicked: Error reading from file: Input/output error /var/log/syslog says: Dec 2 16:43:13 david kernel: [539100.828976] attempt to access beyond end of device Dec 2 16:43:13 david kernel: [539100.828982] sr0: rw=0, want=2235260, limit=2097151 Some files have burned correctly and read correctly. The good files are sequential. I can't find anything on google about this. Any suggestions? thanks David. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
