On Monday 25 April 2011 16:25:40 peasth...@shaw.ca wrote:
> Definitely a sarcastic example; to accompany my remark
> about the computer being a sorcerer's apprentice for
> most users.
Sorry, Peter -
I always did take things too literally. The first French I learnt was "Vous
prenez les choses au
On Monday 25 April 2011 12:01:58 Camaleón wrote:
> Oh, well, if you put it that way... there is no need to make a document
> for that, just send an e-mail or upload a new twitter ;-)
Quite. Another poster in fact suggested email.
Lisi
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From: Camaleon
Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2011 11:01:58 + (UTC)
> I took the above just as a sarcastic example...
Definitely a sarcastic example; to accompany my remark
about the computer being a sorcerer's apprentice for
most users. At a social event such as an office party,
On Sun, 24 Apr 2011 17:19:35 -0800, peasthope wrote:
> From: Camaleon
> Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2011 16:28:01 + (UTC)
>> What you are getting is a common/documented error, don't worry. To
>> solve it you have to edit the XML file and remove the line at the top
>> that links the XML with a stylesheet
On Sun, 24 Apr 2011 23:10:10 +0100, Lisi wrote:
> On Sunday 24 April 2011 18:34:55 Camaleón wrote:
>> On Sun, 24 Apr 2011 18:28:29 +0100, Lisi wrote:
>> > On Sunday 24 April 2011 16:38:23 Camaleón wrote:
>> >> On Sun, 24 Apr 2011 08:27:33 -0800, peasthope wrote:
>> >> > MS invented docx. Now when
From: Camaleon
Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2011 16:28:01 + (UTC)
> What you are getting is a common/documented error, don't worry. To solve
> it you have to edit the XML file and remove the line at the top that
> links the XML with a stylesheet (XSL).
>
> For example:
>
>
>
> ...
>
> Just rem
On Sunday 24 April 2011 18:34:55 Camaleón wrote:
> On Sun, 24 Apr 2011 18:28:29 +0100, Lisi wrote:
> > On Sunday 24 April 2011 16:38:23 Camaleón wrote:
> >> On Sun, 24 Apr 2011 08:27:33 -0800, peasthope wrote:
> >> > MS invented docx. Now when John Doe wants to say "Summer Vacation
> >> > Planning
On Sunday 24 April 2011 09:05:34 am peasth...@shaw.ca wrote:
> I get that. But the function of a browser is to interpret
> a text in an XML language, into a form for input to a human.
> I just don't see how to make Iceweasel recognize the structure
> of this document. The style is there but Ic
On Sun, 24 Apr 2011 18:28:29 +0100, Lisi wrote:
> On Sunday 24 April 2011 16:38:23 Camaleón wrote:
>> On Sun, 24 Apr 2011 08:27:33 -0800, peasthope wrote:
>> > MS invented docx. Now when John Doe wants to say "Summer Vacation
>> > Planning Meeting. Bring your coffee mug to the boardroom at 3:00.
On Sunday 24 April 2011 16:38:23 Camaleón wrote:
> On Sun, 24 Apr 2011 08:27:33 -0800, peasthope wrote:
> > MS invented docx. Now when John Doe wants to say "Summer Vacation
> > Planning Meeting. Bring your coffee mug to the boardroom at 3:00." he
> > can send an archive containing a hierarchy of
On Sun, 24 Apr 2011 09:05:34 -0800, peasthope wrote:
> From: Camaleon
> Subject: Re: docx; was Re^2: OTF conversion without OpenOffice
>> No, indeed. To avoid that tell (instruct) "Mr. Doe" to deliver a PDF
>> document instead and problem solved ;-)
>
> Or
From: Camaleon
Subject:Re: docx; was Re^2: OTF conversion without OpenOffice
> No, indeed. To avoid that tell (instruct) "Mr. Doe" to deliver a PDF
> document instead and problem solved ;-)
Or send an email containing a message of about 82 ASCII characters.
On Sun, 24 Apr 2011 08:27:33 -0800, peasthope wrote:
(Uf... a very old thread, I've completely forgotten the full context :-P)
> MS invented docx. Now when John Doe wants to say "Summer Vacation
> Planning Meeting. Bring your coffee mug to the boardroom at 3:00." he
> can send an archive contai
MS invented docx. Now when John Doe wants to say "Summer
Vacation Planning Meeting. Bring your coffee mug to the boardroom
at 3:00." he can send an archive containing a hierarchy of a
dozen or so files. Several kB in total.
* From: brownh
* Date: Thu, 01 Jul 2010 07:11:47 -0400
On Thu, Jul 01, 2010 at 11:19:29AM +, Camaleón wrote:
> On Wed, 30 Jun 2010 14:48:49 -0400, brownh wrote:
>
> > I received a .docx file appended in an e-mail, and need to extract and
> > convert it to a convenient format such as .html, .pdf, or plain .txt.
>
> (...)
>
> If it's a simple file
On 07/03/2010 01:09 PM, brownh wrote:
Ron Johnson writes:
On 07/01/2010 08:42 AM, brownh wrote:
Ron Johnson writes:
On 07/01/2010 06:11 AM, brownh wrote:
4. Antiword-for-Office is a perl script, but when I tried to compile,
found I was missing the perl Archive::Zip module. Not knowing wh
Ron Johnson writes:
> On 07/01/2010 08:42 AM, brownh wrote:
>> Ron Johnson writes:
>>
>>> On 07/01/2010 06:11 AM, brownh wrote:
4. Antiword-for-Office is a perl script, but when I tried to compile,
found I was missing the perl Archive::Zip module. Not knowing what to
do about that
On Thu, 01 Jul 2010 10:03:28 -0400, brownh wrote:
> Camaleón writes:
>
>> (...)
>>
>> If it's a simple file (just plain text) you can extract (unzip) the
>> .docx into *.xml data for a direct view or convert into another
>> suitable format.
>
> Camaleón, I'm afraid you lost me. The file was .doc
Camaleón writes:
> On Wed, 30 Jun 2010 14:48:49 -0400, brownh wrote:
>
>> I received a .docx file appended in an e-mail, and need to extract and
>> convert it to a convenient format such as .html, .pdf, or plain .txt.
>
> (...)
>
> If it's a simple file (just plain text) you can extract (unzip) t
On 07/01/2010 08:42 AM, brownh wrote:
Ron Johnson writes:
On 07/01/2010 06:11 AM, brownh wrote:
4. Antiword-for-Office is a perl script, but when I tried to compile,
found I was missing the perl Archive::Zip module. Not knowing what to
do about that and too little time to find out, I did not
Ron Johnson writes:
> On 07/01/2010 06:11 AM, brownh wrote:
>> 4. Antiword-for-Office is a perl script, but when I tried to compile,
>> found I was missing the perl Archive::Zip module. Not knowing what to
>> do about that and too little time to find out, I did not pursue.
> This indicates that
On 07/01/2010 06:11 AM, brownh wrote:
Thank you, Matheiu, and others. I ultimately succeeded and here report
my experiences with the options.
1. I found several on-line free conversion services. For various
reasons such as security and privacy I did not pursue them.
2. Install OpenOffice and Op
On Wed, 30 Jun 2010 14:48:49 -0400, brownh wrote:
> I received a .docx file appended in an e-mail, and need to extract and
> convert it to a convenient format such as .html, .pdf, or plain .txt.
(...)
If it's a simple file (just plain text) you can extract (unzip) the .docx
into *.xml data for
Thank you, Matheiu, and others. I ultimately succeeded and here report
my experiences with the options.
1. I found several on-line free conversion services. For various
reasons such as security and privacy I did not pursue them.
2. Install OpenOffice and OpenOffice.OpenXML
Translator. Because thi
On Wed, 30 Jun 2010 14:48:49 -0400
brownh wrote:
> I received a .docx file appended in an e-mail, and need to extract and
> convert it to a convenient format such as .html, .pdf, or plain .txt.
>
> Apparently .docx can be viewed in Abiword and OpenOffice, but I do not
> wish to install GUI appli
Looks like odfconverter /i example.docx is what you want
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From: brownh
Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2010 14:48:49
To:
Subject: OTF conversion without OpenOffice
I received a .docx file appended in an e-mail, and need to extract and
convert it to a
On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 8:48 PM, brownh
wrote:
> I received a .docx file appended in an e-mail, and need to extract and
> convert it to a convenient format such as .html, .pdf, or plain .txt.
>
> Apparently .docx can be viewed in Abiword and OpenOffice, but I do not
> wish to install GUI applicati
I received a .docx file appended in an e-mail, and need to extract and
convert it to a convenient format such as .html, .pdf, or plain .txt.
Apparently .docx can be viewed in Abiword and OpenOffice, but I do not
wish to install GUI applications, and so need a command-line format
conversion utility
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