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Short: Converts Word 2,4,5,6,7,8 files to text,HTML,RTF or AGuide.Update.
Author: docent@union.pl (Peter Drapich)
Uploader: docent@union.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.
Check also Word Converter support pages at http://www.docent.union.pl.
Versions for Linux, Digital Unix (DEC Alpha) and Windows95 are available
from this site.
This is the updated evaluation version 0.9.8 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, RTF 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 0.9.8
· ADD: Added a few Word revisions
· NEW: Preliminary support for Word 2000
· FIX: Changed all references to my email to the new ones.
» version 0.9.7
· NEW: RTF saver added.
· NEW: Word Converter main window becomes AppWindow now. You can drop
Word files onto it to start conversion.
· ADD: Improved detection routine, now all unknown revisions are reported
as unknown revisions of given Word document type, not as generic
Word documents like before.
· ADD: Added a couple of Word revisions reported by users to recog function.
· FIX: Fixed a bug in Amiga version, which caused that all unknown Word
revisions were reported as Word 4 for Mac. Thanks for John Blyth
and others for reporting this one.
· ADD: Catalan localisation done by Llorenç Grau. Thanks!
· ADD: Danish localisation done by Anders Drejer. Thanks!
· ADD: Dutch localisation done by Sander ter Steege. Thanks!