On Thu, 28 May 1998, Kevin wrote:
Is there a *.doc (MS Word) viewer / converter for linux is it a deb
pkg?
I saw the following message on another list a few days ago:
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Announcing
mswordview a MS Word 8 Decoder
mswordview is a program that can understand the microsoft word 8
binary file format (office97), it currently converts word into
html, which can then be read with a browser. its based on the
word 8 format documentation that ms released, and uses laola
(included) to split an ole files into its constituent streams.
Features include
1) ability to understand fastsaved files as well as
non-fastsaved files.
2) conversion of word header paragraph styles into
appropiate header levels of html.
3) conversion of basic font attributes such as
italic, bold and font size into html tags
4) conversion of word tables into html tables.
5) a fair understanding of lists.
Non Supported Features include
1) embedded graphics or other embedded types.
2) headers and footers.
3) fully correct conversion of tab stops and other
formatting done by the user done with whitespace,
coz you cant really do this in html.
4) correct conversion of lists, all lists become
bullet pointed lists (ul), got list format is
a toughy.
5) other extraneous stuff like multi columns, table
of contents, and those special fields in general
5) word 6 and 7 etc arent currently supported, just
word 8
Defects are
1) mswordview uses laola to extract the ole streams
from the document, and on occasion laola cant cope
with some files, i.e corrupt docs and some large
docs.
2) ive only tested it with whatever word 8 files ive
at hand, if you have some that blow mswordview up,
or get wrong output out of it then you can submit
your file at the web gateway listed below.
Web Page for download and information at
http://www.csn.ul.ie/~caolan/docs/MSWordView.html
Web gateway to mswordview at
http://www.csn.ul.ie/~caolan/docs/MSWordView-Demo.html
ive submitted it to sunsite, and its in incoming there, id imagine itll
end up at
ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/utils/file/mswordview-0.0.14.tar.gz
its also available at the website mentioned above and at
ftp://skynet.csn.ul.ie/pub/linux/utilsmswordview-0.0.14.tar.gz
im of course interested to hear if it works for you, if it doesnt, and
if you have bug fixes for it.
(p.s. if someone like applixware or stardivision would like this to
convert from word to their format, they can get in touch :-) )
C.
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