home
***
CD-ROM
|
disk
|
FTP
|
other
***
search
/
Aminet 23
/
Aminet 23 (1998)(GTI - Schatztruhe)[!][Feb 1998].iso
/
Aminet
/
text
/
misc
/
WordConverter.readme
< prev
Wrap
Text File
|
1998-01-05
|
4KB
|
85 lines
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 0.9.4 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)
- Quite stable.
History
» 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: PSGImportWord.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 PSGImportWord.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 PSGImportWord.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.
============================= Archive contents =============================
Original Packed Ratio Date Time Name
-------- ------- ----- --------- -------- -------------
704 358 49.1% 28-Nov-97 00:29:34 +Install WordConverter.info
16840 6145 63.5% 28-Nov-97 00:43:12 +WordConverter.guide
1611 758 52.9% 28-Nov-97 00:29:34 +WordConverter.guide.info
1414 999 29.3% 28-Nov-97 00:29:34 +WordConverter.info
43628 28530 34.6% 27-Nov-97 21:54:28 +reqtools.library
1693 609 64.0% 27-Nov-97 21:54:28 +OrderForm.txt
2169 938 56.7% 27-Nov-97 21:54:28 +CEDImportWord.ced
3638 1469 59.6% 27-Nov-97 21:54:28 +PSGImportWord.rexx
31288 18296 41.5% 28-Nov-97 00:22:10 +WordConverter
1233 596 51.6% 28-Nov-97 00:29:34 WordConverter.info
1716 723 57.8% 28-Nov-97 00:26:12 +Install WordConverter
-------- ------- ----- --------- --------
105934 59421 43.9% 01-Dec-97 02:17:44 11 files