Hi all,
I maintain a LAMP website for a club and I'm facing the perennial battle
with propriety formatted documents.
First Document:
$ file Winter03_Rally_Flyer.doc
Winter03_Rally_Flyer.doc: Microsoft Office document data
My wife runs a comercial word processor on Codeweavers Wine to which
this doc is native so I opened it on that. It had a "save as web page"
option, so I did it. Well. Have you seen the code that this MSWord thing
spews out? It's /not/ going on my website. And people pay money for this
crap. I ended up just using the ascii and doing my own markup.
Second document:
$ file Xmas\ in\ July\ 2003.php
Xmas in July 2003.php: Microsoft Office document data
damn. I was hoping it was php. The producer of this document said
that this was produced by the "industry standard" Publisher2000.
No, it couldn't produce a pdf and no they hadn't heard of postscript.
OK, my employer pays millions of dollars anually for comercial
software licences so I got me a set of "Everything Redmond Produces".
I installed WinXP on vmware and then installed the Publisher2002 thing.
And it is unable to open Xmas\ in\ July\ 2003.php
Questions
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0. Arn't all Publisher document .pub?
1. What the [Ff].{3,} is this foo.php?
2. How do I turn it into something useful?
3. Has the publishing industry realy gone to hell in a hand basket?
Geoffrey
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