From: Robert McGovern <robert.mcgovern@...>
Date: 2004-09-06T21:02:23+09:00
Subject: Re: rublog - word support

> I first thought of exporting an uploaded word doc into .html and letting
> people
> reimport the .html if they want to make any changes.
> 
> Does anybody have a better idea?

Hmm, what you could do is have Rublog run Anitword
(http://www.winfield.demon.nl/) when the user wishes to display the
entry. That way the original doc file is there if they want to further
edit it.

Anitword is a free program which reads the word doc in and spits out a
plain text version or postscript. It works well with most things I
have ever thrown at it and would be more than fine for blog entries.

There is source code and binaries available for many platforms:

RISC OS 
Linux, Unix (with sources) 
FreeBSD 
BeOS 
OS/2 
Mac OS X 
Amiga 
VMS 
NetWare 
Plan9 
EPOC 
Zaurus 
DOS 
Windows 

Rob

(Note, I am not connected with this, just use it from time to time
when I am on a console and need to read a word file)