On Tue, 18 Jun 2013 08:27:07 +0100 Lisi Reisz <lisi.re...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tuesday 18 June 2013 05:25:46 Zenaan Harkness wrote: > > On 6/18/13, Karen Lewellen <klewel...@shellworld.net> 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? > > > > catdoc ? > > > > Otherwise libreoffice from the command line. GIYF (google is your > > friend). > > I have not had any difficulty reading docx for some years now. First > OpenOffice.org and now LibreOffice Just Work. Find file. Open it. > Read to your heart's content. Save in one of the many formats that > OOo/LO can use, or export as pdf. > Bearing in mind that anything more complex than a business letter is unlikely to be displayed as the author intended. But then that's true between different versions of Word, or even the same version if a printer is selected which has a different printable area. Word is really a document processor, eminently suitable for writing a novel, but many people use it for DTP and complain about how poorly it does the job. -- Joe -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130618091337.7e002...@jretrading.com
