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- Read INSTALL for install information, basically pretty standard
- requirements for a modern *NIX program plus libwmf to convert
- wmf files to something useful.
-
- There are now a small herd of programs based upon libwv. AbiWord
- (http://www.abisource.com/) is the most interesting and complete
- one that we're aware of.
-
- 1) wvWare: this is what you are looking for, it converts
- Word 2,6,7,8,9 files to html and latex. The Word 2 conversion
- is still incomplete (no formatting), but it will do a passable
- job extracting the text, which is what you probably want anyway.
-
- 2) The small army of helper scripts:
- wvHtml
- wvLatex
- wvCleanLatex
- wvPS
- wvDVI
- wvPDF
- wvMime
- wvText
- ...
- Do: `man wvXXX` where "XXX" is Html, Latex, etc.. for more information
-
- 3) wvSummary, displays the summary information stream of *all*
- ole2 files, i.e Excel, PowerPoint, Visio, Access etc etc etc,
- I've sent wvSummary as a patch to the file program, so that utility
- should in the future have this ability to know what windows application
- created the ole2 document. `man wvSummary`
-
- 4) wvVersion, outputs the version of the word format which the document
- is stored as. `man wvVersion`
-
- Also...
-
- 5) There are helper applications in the helper-scripts dir
- that allow both lynx and netscape to view word 8 docs easily
-
- 6) The webpage is at http://wvware.sourceforge.net/
-
- Finally...
-
- 7) libwv can be used as a library by third party programs, abiword
- uses it as its word importer, and kword may use it in the future.
- wvWare is a sample application for the use of wv, as is abiword
- itself. The library (will be some day) documented in the
- Documentation dir
-
- 8) The config file format is (beginning to be) documented in the
- Documentation dir, so it may be possible to achieve the conversion
- that you desire without writing your own program. It also allows
- you to customize the html and latex output to your own tastes.
-
- Some possible "fun" projects:
-
- (Projects for someone to try out with libwv include, could be
- commercial applications)
-
- a) wvMacroRemove, deletes macros out of word files, for the security
- concious
-
- b) wvFastToFull, converts fastsaved docs to full saved, shrinking their
- size usually by quite a lot, and also making them safe for security
- consious firms
-
- c) wvCrackProtection, take the wvDecrypt97 code and make a cracker
- that uses the rc4 algorithm and other known bit of information to
- crack word documents, ala http://www.crak.com
-
-