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Awesome. How do you guys convert binary DOC/PPT files to files you can work with? If I remember correctly, the only way to do it was to convert it on a Windows
by markbao 17y ago
Awesome. How do you guys convert binary DOC/PPT files to files you can work with? If I remember correctly, the only way to do it was to convert it on a Windows system.
- tlrobinson 17y agoOpenOffice, perhaps?
- sunchild 17y agoOr this? http://poi.apache.org/ http://poi.apache.org/
- jamesbritt 17y agoI hope not. In a quest for Linux-usable tools for manipulating Word docs I gave POI a shot, and with even moderately complex documents the results were horrible. Running Word on an EC2 instance of Windows Server looked to be my best option. :(
- sunchild 17y agoI suspected as much. Microsoft seems to have started from the GUI and worked their way down to an API.
- jamesbritt 17y agoThe Word API is really quite handy, and scripting it using Ruby (for example) is easy and effective. On win32. Reading their binary format, though, is another matter.
- sunchild 17y agoYeah, but it: (a) requires paid licenses, and (b) runs on a troublesome OS. It's also an absurd waste of time and resources just to convert a text format. I'd just as soon run it through Google Docs and scrape the result, etc.
- joseakle 17y ago(doc,ppt)->pdf->flash ?