Thanks to all who replied.
I've downloaded all the likely candidates and will have a play with them and
report back. So far I've had very good results with wvHtml which has coped
admirably with all the word docs I have to hand.
If anyone else has already evaluated any of the converters I (and
How about staroffice ? It reads *.doc files and you can save them as *.rtf
files.
>
> Phil Driscoll wrote:
> > I have to build a web site for a local government education authority in
> > the UK which will allow them to make available a large range of documents
> > to schools. They INSIST on subm
On Sun, 24 Jun 2001, Phil Driscoll wrote:
> On Sunday 24 June 2001 16:32, Justin Farnsworth wrote:
> > Try the latest AbiWord...
> I've just installed it, but I can't find any obvious way to invoke it at the
> command line to load a Word file and save out html or rtf. Am I missing
> something?
Try www.htdig.org, and look in the contributed software directory. There is
a script there which "disassembles" various documents into html so that
htdig can index them. I believe it is doc2html.pl, but "doc" embraces
various forms of documents.
Miels
At 03:25 PM 6/24/01 +0100, Phil Driscoll
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I have to build a web site for a local government education authority in the
UK which will allow them to
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Well, this doesn't really surprise me too much. We are a
linux shop on the backend and AbiWord reads just fine Word files from
all the Windows machines, running Windows 2000. However,
AbiWord chokes on a Word document from our local Macs, for
reasons that I don't know, and I am not too intereste
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> On Sunday 24 June 2001 16:32, Justin Farnsworth wrote:
> > Try the latest AbiWord...
> I've ju
On Sunday 24 June 2001 16:32, Justin Farnsworth wrote:
> Try the latest AbiWord...
I've just installed it, but I can't find any obvious way to invoke it at the
command line to load a Word file and save out html or rtf. Am I missing
something? Also, when I tested the software via its gui and load
Try the latest AbiWord...
Phil Driscoll wrote:
>
> I have to build a web site for a local government education authority in the
> UK which will allow them to make available a large range of documents to
> schools. They INSIST on submitting documents in Word format. I think it is
> immoral to m
On Sunday 24 June 2001 15:06, Duncan Hill wrote:
> Google reveals
> http://www.logictran.com/
They seem to have an RTF to html utility which will run on multiple
platforms, but the thing that converts word documents directly requires a
copy of Word on the server :-(
Cheers
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Phil Driscoll
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On Sun, 24 Jun 2001, Phil Driscoll wrote:
> determined to translate them to something sensible (html, rtf or pdf
> will do) at the server. The server is a Linux box so there's no
> opportunity to play any tricks with COM.
>
> Has anyone come across any tools to do this, using php or otherwise?
I have to build a web site for a local government education authority in the
UK which will allow them to make available a large range of documents to
schools. They INSIST on submitting documents in Word format. I think it is
immoral to make the schools have to accept documents in that format so
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