Re: [blfs-support] Ways to convert a .doc to something more civil.

2013-12-09 Thread Aleksandar Kuktin
>On Mon, 9 Dec 2013 07:04:14 -0500 >LM wrote: > > Aleksandar Kuktin wrote: > >Is there a way to convert .doc documents to something else > >(preferably PDF) WITHOUT using *Office? > > If you're trying to convert a document from Word format, you may want > to take a look at antiword: > http://www.

Re: [blfs-support] Ways to convert a .doc to something more civil.

2013-12-09 Thread LM
Aleksandar Kuktin wrote: >Is there a way to convert .doc documents to something else (preferably >PDF) WITHOUT using *Office? If you're trying to convert a document from Word format, you may want to take a look at antiword: http://www.winfield.demon.nl/ Sincerely, Laura http://www.distasis.com/cp

Re: [blfs-support] Ways to convert a .doc to something more civil.

2013-12-06 Thread Aleksandar Kuktin
>On Fri, 06 Dec 2013 22:37:57 +0100 >"Armin K." wrote: > You could use AbiWord if you don't want to build entire Libreoffce. > > But it seems that wv package (available in BLFS) could help you do > what you want. > > See http://wvware.sourceforge.net/ "wv Utilities". They recommend > using abiw

Re: [blfs-support] Ways to convert a .doc to something more civil.

2013-12-06 Thread Armin K.
On 12/06/2013 10:30 PM, Aleksandar Kuktin wrote: > Hi all! > > Is there a way to convert .doc documents to something else (preferably > PDF) WITHOUT using *Office? > > The thing is that I have moved to new harware, rebuilt most of (B)LFS, > but would want to read these bunch of documents without

[blfs-support] Ways to convert a .doc to something more civil.

2013-12-06 Thread Aleksandar Kuktin
Hi all! Is there a way to convert .doc documents to something else (preferably PDF) WITHOUT using *Office? The thing is that I have moved to new harware, rebuilt most of (B)LFS, but would want to read these bunch of documents without first having to spend the entire weekend hacking OpenOffice. It