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roberts

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Posted: Feb. 17 2005,16:48

I have resurrected the GUI code that I was working on, antiword and ps2pdf, for 0.9.0 and have updated it with many ideas from this thread. We will have a more powerful Word Viewer/Converter in the next release. This was a good thread. Thanks to all.

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Posted: Feb. 21 2005,18:45

Quote (roberts @ Feb. 17 2005,11:48)

Do we then need FL writer?
For those who really need a word processor abiword and open office are available as extensions.

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Posted: Feb. 21 2005,18:59

Yes, we still need something like FL writer.

All these programs do is let you view MSWord files OR let you convert them to PDF format.

They do not let you write your own documents like a word processor program. For that you need something like TED, FL Writer or Pathetic Writer.

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Posted: Mar. 05 2005,03:21

Tried the scripts again today (well, doc2pdf...), didn't work so I tried disecting it a bit, it hits an error on the first command, antiword outputing to a ps file => says "I can not open your font names file for reading"
Any thoughts?
When I just do "antiword -p A4 suchandsuch.doc" it shows the contents in the term, in what looks maybe like a postscript format, but outputting it to a .ps file results in said error?

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Posted: Mar. 06 2005,21:07

RS, so even if it does give you the error can it make a .ps file? It sounds like it trying
to output something and so ' > temp.ps' shouldn't really upset it anymore than it already
is and ` gs temp.ps ' might give you something (with a substitute font).

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