Re: OTF conversion without OpenOffice
Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com> writes:
> On Wed, 30 Jun 2010 14:48:49 -0400, brownh wrote:
>
>> I received a .docx file appended in an e-mail, and need to extract and
>> convert it to a convenient format such as .html, .pdf, or plain .txt.
>
> (...)
>
> If it's a simple file (just plain text) you can extract (unzip) the .docx
> into *.xml data for a direct view or convert into another suitable format.
Camaleón, I'm afraid you lost me. The file was .docx, which looks
binary. As a result, it's MIME'd in the mail message, which makes it
plain ASCII.
But apparently you mean that I can run unzip on the .docx file to
extract *.xml data. This was news to me, for I had no idea that .docx
was an archive. But I tried it, and a number of things happened. It
created an empty _rels directory; it created a docProps directory in
which are app.xml and core.xml, and it created a word/ directory in
which there are a number of *.xml files. None of these xml files are
understood by abiword.
Haines
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