Hi,
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 the doc so I can read it and
convert to LaTeX or something sensible. /usr/bin/strings doesa a reasonable
job where formatting isn't important.
Sometimes however, I get sent documents (usually full of tables) that
purport to be in portrait orientation, but are actually Landscape ---
wvMime (and abiWord on my one box with Gnome on it) attempt to display
the doc on a portrait oriented a4 page, with all the text truncated at
the right margin.
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)?
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