Re: help save our documents

From: Reuben D Budiardja (reubendb@goshen.edu)
Date: Tue Apr 23 2002 - 23:40:13 EDT

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    On Tuesday 23 April 2002 05:36 pm, Dom Lachowicz wrote:
    > There are several ways around this:
    >
    > 1) Your #1 is wrong. You can keep using AbiWord, except script it on the
    > command line:
    >
    > abiword --to html file.doc
    > This results in file.html being produced. Not too shabby, and the HTML
    > output is visually stunning.

    But abiword cannot convert the equations and formulas written in MS Word as
    an object. I tried this already, and all the equations just becomes blank.

    > abiword --to latex file.doc
    > This results in file.latex being produced. NB: the output to TeX probabl
    > isn't visually close enough for your needs, nor will it honor things
    > like graphics.

    Didn't try this, but I am suspecting the same problem as above. As the
    original poster said, the documents includes equations etc.

    To Original Poster (Ro Wiijkejak) :
    If you save the document as HTML from MS Word, all the equations will become
    a picture/graphics. Your scripts will need to handle that. However, html
    files produces by MS Word is a mess, and contains a lot of proprietary tags I
    think. But if you can just extract the text and graphics, that'll be great.

    Unless you're willing to re-write all of your formula using a latex front end
    of somekind, I don't see how AbiWord can help you converting this.

    Just my 0.02 cents.
    Reuben D. Budiardja

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