On Tuesday 01 December 2009 09:00:04 [email protected] wrote: > 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)?
Although the borg is utterly evil and to be shunned, he does produce some good software. crossover office and office 2007 work so nicely that she-who-must- be-obeyed uses it for her committee work every day with nary a glitch of any sort. And, as emotionally challanged as I am to say it, (thinks of Cleese, the window and a Fish Called Wanda) as she was an utter neophyte (with office tools) who has never used winders in any shape or form (so much hand holding was needed) it has been very much easier to teach her word than OO. (I too have never neen a winders user and have used OO since it was li'l) Hmmmm. The problem with OO is that it often screwed doc or docx documents so they look nothing like the orriginal. Not good when you're doing the minutes or agenda from templates. James -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
