Which app do we have to strip the glop from a M$ .doc file and output
just the content to a plain text file? OO print to file doesn't seem to
understand anything but postscript. Do I need to "install" a "text printer"?
TIA
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On Saturday 23 December 2006 21:00, Felix Miata wrote:
> Which app do we have to strip the glop from a M$ .doc file and
> output just the content to a plain text file?
Did you try opening the .doc with OO, and "Save As", choosing "Text"
or "Text Encoded"?
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Leen
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On 2006/12/23 21:13 (GMT+0100) Leendert Meyer apparently typed:
> On Saturday 23 December 2006 21:00, Felix Miata wrote:
>> Which app do we have to strip the glop from a M$ .doc file and
>> output just the content to a plain text file?
> Did you try opening the .doc with OO, and "Save As", choos
On Saturday 23 December 2006 21:22, Felix Miata wrote:
> On 2006/12/23 21:13 (GMT+0100) Leendert Meyer apparently typed:
> > On Saturday 23 December 2006 21:00, Felix Miata wrote:
> >> Which app do we have to strip the glop from a M$ .doc file and
> >> output just the content to a plain text file?
On 2006/12/23 21:43 (GMT+0100) Leendert Meyer apparently typed:
> On Saturday 23 December 2006 21:22, Felix Miata wrote:
>> On 2006/12/23 21:13 (GMT+0100) Leendert Meyer apparently typed:
>> > On Saturday 23 December 2006 21:00, Felix Miata wrote:
>> >> Which app do we have to strip the glop fr
On Saturday 23 December 2006 12:00, Felix Miata wrote:
> Which app do we have to strip the glop from a M$ .doc file and output
> just the content to a plain text file? OO print to file doesn't seem to
> understand anything but postscript. Do I need to "install" a "text
> printer"?
>
> TIA
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On Saturday 23 December 2006 13:04, Mike Noble wrote:
> On Saturday 23 December 2006 12:00, Felix Miata wrote:
> > Which app do we have to strip the glop from a M$ .doc file and output
> > just the content to a plain text file? OO print to file doesn't seem to
> > understand anything but postscript
On Saturday 23 December 2006 22:00, Felix Miata wrote:
> > How about an indirect conversion, like to .html? It would not be
> > that difficult to strip the tags.
>
> Looks plenty difficult to me. The file size increased by about
> 40%. Both SeaMonkey and Konq fail to display anything legible when
>
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The Saturday 2006-12-23 at 15:00 -0500, Felix Miata wrote:
> Which app do we have to strip the glop from a M$ .doc file and output
> just the content to a plain text file? OO print to file doesn't seem to
> understand anything but postscript. Do I ne
Felix Miata wrote:
> Which app do we have to strip the glop from a M$ .doc file and output
> just the content to a plain text file? OO print to file doesn't seem to
> understand anything but postscript. Do I need to "install" a "text printer"?
>
> TIA
>
Why not just save it as a text (.txt) file
On 2006/12/23 22:18 (GMT+0100) Carlos E. R. apparently typed:
> The Saturday 2006-12-23 at 15:00 -0500, Felix Miata wrote:
>> Which app do we have to strip the glop from a M$ .doc file and
>> output just the content to a plain text file? OO print to file
>> doesn't seem to understand anything but
On Sunday 24 December 2006 00:03, Felix Miata wrote:
> I installed wv and wv2 with YaST, but they haven't shown up in the
> menus, and wv from konsole gives command not found, even though
> rpm claims they're installed. I can't find wv in /bin, /sbin,
> /usr/bin or /usr/sbin. :-(
I browsed the wv
On Sunday 24 December 2006 00:13, Leendert Meyer wrote:
> On Sunday 24 December 2006 00:03, Felix Miata wrote:
> > I installed wv and wv2 with YaST, but they haven't shown up in
> > the menus, and wv from konsole gives command not found, even
> > though rpm claims they're installed. I can't find wv
On Sat, 2006-12-23 at 18:03 -0500, Felix Miata wrote:
> On 2006/12/23 22:18 (GMT+0100) Carlos E. R. apparently typed:
>
> > The Saturday 2006-12-23 at 15:00 -0500, Felix Miata wrote:
>
> >> Which app do we have to strip the glop from a M$ .doc file and
> >> output just the content to a plain text
On Saturday 23 December 2006 13:21, James Knott wrote:
> Felix Miata wrote:
> > Which app do we have to strip the glop from a M$ .doc file and output
> > just the content to a plain text file? OO print to file doesn't seem to
> > understand anything but postscript. Do I need to "install" a "text
>
On 2006/12/23 18:24 (GMT-0500) Michael S. Dunsavage apparently typed:
> On Sat, 2006-12-23 at 18:03 -0500, Felix Miata wrote:
>> I installed wv and wv2 with YaST, but they haven't shown up in the
>> menus, and wv from konsole gives command not found, even though rpm
>> claims they're installed. I
On Saturday 23 December 2006 16:09, Felix Miata wrote:
> On 2006/12/23 18:24 (GMT-0500) Michael S. Dunsavage apparently typed:
> > On Sat, 2006-12-23 at 18:03 -0500, Felix Miata wrote:
> >> I installed wv and wv2 with YaST, but they haven't shown up in the
> >> menus, and wv from konsole gives comm
On Saturday 23 December 2006 18:09, Felix Miata wrote:
> On 2006/12/23 18:24 (GMT-0500) Michael S. Dunsavage apparently typed:
> > On Sat, 2006-12-23 at 18:03 -0500, Felix Miata wrote:
> >> I installed wv and wv2 with YaST, but they haven't shown up in the
> >> menus, and wv from konsole gives com
On 2006/12/24 00:13 (GMT+0100) Leendert Meyer apparently typed:
> On Sunday 24 December 2006 00:03, Felix Miata wrote:
>> I installed wv and wv2 with YaST, but they haven't shown up in the
>> menus, and wv from konsole gives command not found, even though
>> rpm claims they're installed. I can't
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The Saturday 2006-12-23 at 19:43 -0500, Felix Miata wrote:
>
> > In short: you're looking for /usr/bin/wvWare. ;-)
>
> Seems to be useless. Word8/97 is a virtually 10 year old file format.
> Whether I use wvHtml or wvText all I get for output is a
On 23 Dec 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Which app do we have to strip the glop from a M$ .doc file and output
> just the content to a plain text file? OO print to file doesn't seem
> to understand anything but postscript. Do I need to "install" a "text
> printer"?
(1) antiword: http://www.winf
On 23 Dec 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Some of the wv* things are scripts. I have used "wvText" on some
> recent .doc files and it works fine. It is possible that your file is
> too complex or someway incompatible.
The stand alone scripts are not maintained anymore, in flavour of using
Abiwor
Antiword seems to work well.
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