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Re: .doc file to .txt ?

• Posted by ags <eu at 531pi.co.nz> Aug 07, 2005
• 509 views

Kat wrote:
> > <a href="http://www.winfield.demon.nl/">http://www.winfield.demon.nl/</a>
> > 
> > I'm not sure if you want to be dependant on an external program (nor even if
> > antiword will do what you want, re images) but it is available on many, many
> > platforms even 16-bit MS-DOS.
> 
> Kool:
> 
> (2) save the text version of the Word document in Latin2, in a file antiword
> -m
> cp852.txt filename.doc > filename.txt 
> 
> (1) save the PostScript version of the Word document in Latin1, in a file
> generate
> 
> PostScript for printing on European A4 size paper antiword -p a4 -m 8859-1.txt
>
> filename.doc > filename.ps 
> 
> (2) save the PostScipt version of the Word document in Latin2, in a file
> generate
> PostScript for printing on American letter size paper antiword -p letter -m
> 8859-
> 2.txt filename.doc > filename.ps 
> 
> Thanks, ags!

De nada, nichts zu danken.  Openwebmail uses antiword to give fast previews
of word docs which is what impressed me about it.  I don't think it handles
tables too well though.

Gary