Re: the dreaded Word attachment
openoffice is the answer
also for pdf files you want a recent veriosn of xpdf to handle the new 1.4
pdf format
At 05:27 PM 5/29/02 -0700, Jim McCloskey wrote:
>
>Hello. Like others here, I suspect, I've developed over the years a
>little toolbox of stratagems for dealing with the Word documents that
>people insist on sending me.
>
>It seems to me, though, that it's proving steadily more difficult to
>deal with this problem. Abiword (in my experience) used to deal well
>with most kinds of Word documents; but in the past year or so (I
>assume because people are using some new version or other of Word), it
>fails on more and more of the ones I am sent:
>
>/usr/bin/abiword: line 73: 2207 Aborted $ABISUITE_LIBEXEC/$ABIWORD_BINARY
"$@"
>
>In addition, the PDF and RTF outputs from Word used (it seems to me)
>to be fairly easy to deal with. But more and more in recent times, the
>PDF files that I have been sent yield errors of this sort:
>
>Error (0): PDF file is damaged - attempting to reconstruct xref
>table... Error (3428): Bad FCHECK in flate stream
>
>and/or they display and print as sequences of blank pages.
>
>In addition, Ted and Abiword both seem to choke more often than they
>used to on the RTF files that I am sent.
>
>Is this a solitary delusion of mine, or have others experienced
>something like this? Has anyone found a better way of dealing with
>this plague?
>
>Thanks,
>
>Jim McCloskey
>
>
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