> "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 t
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
Hey Sridhar,
Count me in.
Regards,
Patrick
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> "Rodolfo" == Rodolfo MartÃnez 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 y
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)
Hey Sridhar,
Dont know waht i can do but you can count me in.
Regards,
Daryl
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Regards
Daryl Thompson
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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] attem
