On 18/06/13 05:42, Karen Lewellen wrote: > Hi folks, > it may be a part of laytext, but we do not have that here on shellworld. > Still I am wondering if there is a utility in debian that will convert > the ms word .docx file format into anything else? antiword will not > do this because technically .docx is not word so to speak. > for those who do not know Microsoft created the .docx format in word > 2007, and almost nothing else can read them smiles. > ideas? > Karen > > While I'm not a fan of the OOXML format (official docx name), it's actually an improvement over the binary doc format. A .docx is actually a zip file containing HTML and CSS files. So it's really much easier to read than the old binary format.
The reason why so few programs can read it correctly is because MS doesn't really follow the published specification of how to create/display an OOXML file. Pretty much the same issue as how IE displays certain CSS properties. Regarding your issue: you could write a script that does something like unzip, parse with lynx, display the text contents. Kind regards Michael
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