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- Short: Converts Word 2,5,6,7,8 files to text, HTML or AmigaGuide. Update.
- Author: docent@union.org.pl (Peter Drapich)
- Uploader: docent@union.org.pl (Peter Drapich)
- Type: text/misc
- Replaces: WordConverter.lha
-
- Word Converter is a useful tool for everybody, who is looking for the
- possibility to read documents, created with Word - a famous word processor
- by Microsoft, available on Wintel and Mac platforms. Thanks to Word
- Converter, you are able to convert documents created with Word for Windows
- version 2, 6, 7 and 8 and Word 4, 5 for Mac to plain text, AmigaGuide or
- HTML document, or even import them directly into PageStream 3 or CygnusEd
- text editor through additional ARexx scripts.
-
- This is the updated evaluation version 0.9.5 of Word Converter.
-
- Key Features
-
- - Simple, intuitive way of converting Word documents.
- - Converts documents, created with Word for Windows version 2, 6, 7 and 8.
- - Converts documents, created with Word 4, 5 for Mac.
- - Converts documents, created with Word for DOS (hopefully).
- - Document can be converted to ASCII text, HTML and AmigaGuide.
- - Works as a command line tool too.
- - Additional ARexx scripts allow easy import of Word document directly
- into PageStream 3 or CygnusEd text editor.
- - Context help (requires Kickstart 3.0)
- - Localised.
- - Quite stable.
-
-
- History
- » version 0.9.5
- · NEW: Added conversion between various national character encoding
- schemes. Apply mainly to Polish users.
- · NEW: Added locale support. WordConverter.cd file is included for
- those, who want to localise Word Converter into their own
- languages. Please email me all new translations to include them
- into the next releases.
- · NEW: Added preliminary support for Word 5 for DOS documents.
- · FIX: Fixed a GUI layouting bug, which caused that localised, longer
- strings didn't fit in gadgets. This fix also solves problems with
- proper GUI layouting when topaz.font was used.
- All topaz users - time to upgrade to better looking font :)
- I'm using XHelvetica size 13 and with that font WordConverter
- looks nicer.
- Thanks to Krzysztof Stec for reporting it.
- · FIX: Fixed a bug, which caused that quotes weren't converted properly.
- Thanks to Tony Roberts for reporting it.
- · FIX: Fixed a bug, which caused that all documents saved without OLE
- wrapper (Word 2,5 for DOS and Word 4,5 for MAC documents) weren't
- detected as Word documents when converting from Shell or through
- an Arexx script.
-
- » version 0.9.4
- · NEW: Completely rewritten OLE wrapper. Decryption is coming!
- · NEW: Added support for WinWord 2 and Word for Mac 4 and 5 documents.
- · ADD: The name of the selected file in the filerequester is kept for the
- next filename selection - requested by several users.
- · FIX: PGSImportWord.rexx now works correctly again - thanks to Jon
- Peterson for this bug report.
- · FIX: Removed improperly used </HEAD> tag in HTML saver - thanks to
- Philip Steffan for this.
- · ADD: Arexx script PGSImportWord.rexx updated to detect if the cursor
- is in a text box - thanks to Ezequiel Partida for this one!
-
- » version 0.9.3
- · FIX: Fixed a serious bug, which caused crashes on pre V39 machines.
- Thanks to Yama for reporting this one.
- · FIX: Fixed a serious bug, which caused crashes while trying to convert
- non-Word documents with command line parameters. This solves all
- problems with ARexx scripts.
-
- » version 0.9.2
- · NEW: Added a new commandline option 'FORCE'.
- · NEW: Added PGSImportWord.rexx - Arexx script for importing texts into
- PageStream 3 documents.
- · ADD: Arexx script CEDImportWord.ced rewritten to be more safe.
- · ADD: Cleaned up error codes, returned by various functions.
-
- » version 0.9.1
- · FIX: A couple of fixes in docs.
- · ADD: Added a couple of new Word 6 revisions to recog function.
- · ADD: Added wordwrap option to AmigaGuide saver. This will allow reading
- converted documents without scrolling to the right in case of long
- text paragraphs.
-
- » version 0.9.0 First public release.
- · all older versions were internal and not publicly available.
-