On Tue, 2009-12-01 at 09:09 +1100, Peter Chubb wrote: > How do other people deal with these weird documents? Is there an easy > way to view or convert them (NOT using Gnome or OpenOffice or other > heavyweight GUI tools)?
Unfortunately Word is not a specification just a jungle of data that has grown from the first version till today. This means that it is really hard to import these documents. OOo hired the expert who reverse engineered the format for other FOSS tools and therefore it is a really robust strong product. Tables are a major problem, even for OOo, I cannot import the Scouts forms because of their tables cleanly and they keep changing them every 3 months lately, total pain. OOo is your only real choice. Ken (Ex OOo developer) -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
