Re: Convert .doc to Open editable format

2011-06-01 Thread Florian Snow
Camaleón: Find a computer with MS Word on it and save/export the document from there to another file format. I second that. As much as I don't like using proprietary software, going to a computer lab at the university here and using MS Word to convert a file to a more suitable format was often

Re (2): Convert .doc to Open editable format

2011-06-01 Thread peasthope
From: Florian Snow flor...@familysnow.net Date: Wed, 01 Jun 2011 21:29:47 +0200 As much as I don't like using proprietary software, going to a computer lab at the university here and using MS Word to convert a file ... If someone can give you a paper copy, scan it, apply tesseract-ocr and

Re: Convert .doc to Open editable format

2011-06-01 Thread Rob Owens
On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 02:14:16PM +, Camaleón wrote: On Sun, 29 May 2011 17:58:05 -0300, Daniel Bareiro wrote: Currently I'm making the Final University Project and I've found that the templates provided by teachers for the reports are in Microsoft Word format. It is sad to note that

Re: Convert .doc to Open editable format

2011-05-30 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 29 May 2011 17:58:05 -0300, Daniel Bareiro wrote: Currently I'm making the Final University Project and I've found that the templates provided by teachers for the reports are in Microsoft Word format. It is sad to note that encourages the use of a closed-format for something that

Convert .doc to Open editable format

2011-05-29 Thread Daniel Bareiro
Hi all! Currently I'm making the Final University Project and I've found that the templates provided by teachers for the reports are in Microsoft Word format. It is sad to note that encourages the use of a closed-format for something that should mean a contribution to humanity... When trying to

Re: Convert .doc to Open editable format

2011-05-29 Thread Mihira Fernando
On 05/30/2011 02:28 AM, Daniel Bareiro wrote: Hi all! Currently I'm making the Final University Project and I've found that the templates provided by teachers for the reports are in Microsoft Word format. It is sad to note that encourages the use of a closed-format for something that should

Re: Convert .doc to Open editable format

2011-05-29 Thread Daniel Bareiro
On Monday, 30 May 2011 02:32:32 +0530, Mihira Fernando wrote: Currently I'm making the Final University Project and I've found that the templates provided by teachers for the reports are in Microsoft Word format. It is sad to note that encourages the use of a closed-format for something that

Re: Convert .doc to Open editable format

2011-05-29 Thread Daniel Bareiro
Hi Leonardo. I cc'ed the reply to the list. On Sonday, 29 May 2011 21:17:35 +, Leonardo Ruoso wrote: Currently I'm making the Final University Project and I've found that the templates provided by teachers for the reports are in Microsoft Word format. It is sad to note that encourages

Re: Convert .doc to Open editable format

2011-05-29 Thread William Hopkins
On 05/29/11 at 06:15pm, Daniel Bareiro wrote: On Monday, 30 May 2011 02:32:32 +0530, Mihira Fernando wrote: Currently I'm making the Final University Project and I've found that the templates provided by teachers for the reports are in Microsoft Word format. It is sad to note that

Re: Convert .doc to Open editable format

2011-05-29 Thread Mark Grieveson
Can LibreOffice save a PDF as ODT? I don't know about LibreOffice. However, there's a couple of command-line programs that may be worth looking into. One is unoconv, and the other is wkhtmltopdf. Mark -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of