Good Word doc -> plain text conversion

[John Abreau]

Did you try the -w option? From the man page:


       -w width
              In text mode this is the line width in characters.  A  value
 of
              zero puts an entire paragraph on a line, useful when the text
is
              to used as  input  for  another  wordprocessor.  This  value
 is
              ignored in PostScript mode.


On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 9:30 AM, Ian Stokes-Rees <
ijstokes-/2FeUQLD3jedFdvTe/nMLpVzexx5G7lz at public.gmane.org> wrote:

>
>
> On 9/20/10 12:01 AM, jc-8FIgwK2HfyJMuWfdjsoA/w at public.gmane.org wrote:
> > Dan Ritter wrote:
> > | antiword is the usual candidate. Every one of Google's first ten
> > | results for that are relevant.
> >
> > Yeah, I thought of that, too, but I was hoping there might be something
>  that
> > does  a  better  job.   In  one of my current sample .doc files, for
> example,
> > antiword produces the curious table entry:
>
>
> Use antiword and recompile it yourself with no line length limit.  I'm
> sure you'll easily find some hard-coded value of 138 in there.
>
> "antiword" is the standard and will, I suspect, support more than
> anything else you find.
>
> Ian
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