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nucpc

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Posted: Feb. 03 2005,20:04

Congratulations on 0.9.3, beautiful work.

I don't know if its just the documents I'm viewing (which should be
fairly demanding) but,

antiword -p a4 filename > /tmp/temp.ps
gvu /tmp/temp.ps

is giving some great results and is a gift to script...
(doesn't often like direct `piping' thus the need for tmp)

cbagger01

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Posted: Feb. 05 2005,05:57

Funny that you mention this. Great minds think alike. My thoughts were to create a short shell script that does something like this:

Code Sample

#!/bin/bash
#
# wordview Rev0 2/5/05
# originally submitted by cbagger01 from the DSL forum
#
antiword -p letter "$*" > /tmp/"$*".ps
gvu /tmp/"$*".ps
rm /tmp/"$*".ps
exit

save the script as wordview and then do a "chmod 755 wordview" to make it executable.

and then associate the *.doc extension to run "wordview" in the emelfm file manager.

So then all you need to do is double-click on the Word document and up pops the nice formatted postscript conversion of your document for viewing or printing.

Give it a try. Maybe it is worth adding in a future version of DSL.

roberts

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Posted: Feb. 05 2005,17:56

FYI, around 0.9.0 build we tried to eliminate Xpdf by using a technique very similar to the above suggestion. But it was dropped because of gvu rendering ability of some postscript files.

nucpc

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Posted: Feb. 06 2005,17:12

Hi Cbagger, great to be in good company.

Robert, I finally got the script to fall over (a little bit) on one document when it got confused
around an included image (where upon it just produced a few blank pages before returning
text) but apart from that I've not hit big trouble (with -p a4 postscript output).

Accepting it might never be clean enough for DSL: antiword + gvu is however definitely
beating wvHtml + dillo, or previously, wvLaTeX + latex2rtf + Ted or any other combinations
I've tried. Perhaps still worth consideration??

nucpc

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Posted: Feb. 07 2005,11:00

Hi again CB, Robert,
CB - I've just noticed that in the `word processor' posts from a while back you'd
already mentioned antiword and (oh yep) gv in almost the same sentence....
hmmm, beginning to get the feeling I'm a few steps behind folk....
I'll try to stay a bit more up to date in future. Cheers.

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