Re: apple MSWord files
On Sat, Dec 20, 2003 at 08:39:17AM -0500, Dan Griswold wrote:
> Matt Price <matt.price@utoronto.ca> writes:
>
> > A student has sent me a paper as an email attachment. It's an
> > MSWord document -- which should be fine, since OOo and AbiWord and
> > KWord all open MS docs -- but it comes from a Mac, I'm assuming a
> > pre-osX mac. Mutt tells me it's of type: application/x-macbinary
> > anyway, I can open the file in OpenOffice, but it's a total mess --
> > control characters everywhere, illegible garbage top and bottom, no
> > footnotes.
>
> > Is there, then, a general strategy for dealing with these icky MacOS
> > files?
>
> I've had this problem, too. I decided that the Linux-based converters
> had not been programmed to handle these early Mac formats. My only
> solution was to have someone save the file either in a current MSWord
> format or in something open or quasi-open, such as HTML or RTF.
>
> Dan
>
... I think I'm gonna go with this strategy myself...
matt
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