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Title:          mswordview  MS Word Decoder
Version:        0.1.0
Entered-date:   290798
Description:    mswordview is a program that can understand 
                the microsoft word 8 binary file format (office97), 
                it currently converts word into html, which can then 
                be read with a browser. 
                Features include
                    1) ability to understand fastsaved files as well as
                       non-fastsaved files.
                    2) conversion of word header paragraph styles into 
                       appropiate header levels of html
                    3) conversion of symbol and wingding font into gif
                       images.
                    4) conversion of font attributes such as italic,
                       bold, underline, subscript, superscript and font size 
                       into html tags
                    5) conversion of word tables into html tables.
                    6) conversion of lists and multilevel lists.
                    7) conversion of footnotes into html linked text.
                    8) almost total support for headers and footers. doesnt fully
                       understand all the nuances of sections etc, but its close.
                    9) conversion of non european languages into utf-8 encoding
                       which can be viewed correcly by netscape (definitely works 
                       with 4.05)
                Non Supported Features include
                    1) header (and main text) textboxes, coz i only heard about them
                       for the first time as i went to press :-)
                    2) embedded graphics or other embedded types (e.g. equations)
                    3) fully correct conversion of tab stops and other 
                       formatting done by the user done with whitespace
                    4) formatting such as distance from borders,
                       justification, and nonexplicit pagebreaks.
                    5) tables are always stretched to 100% of the page width for 
                       the moment.
                    6) word 6 and 7 etc arent currently supported, just 
                       word 8
                Defects are
                    1) mswordview uses laola to extract the ole streams 
                       from the document, and on occasion laola cant cope 
                       with some files, i.e corrupt docs and some large
                       docs.
                Web Page for download and information at..
                http://www.csn.ul.ie/~caolan/docs/MSWordView.html
                and
                http://www.gnu.org/~caolan/docs/MSWordView.html
                Web gateway to mswordview at..
                http://www.csn.ul.ie/~caolan/docs/MSWordView-Demo.html
Keywords:       msword, word, office, converter, decoder, translator, html
Author:         Caolan.McNamara@ul.ie (Caolan McNamara)
Maintained-by:  Caolan.McNamara@ul.ie (Caolan McNamara)
Primary-site:   sunsite.unc.edu /pub/Linux/apps/www/converters
                mswordview-0.1.0.tar.gz
Alternate-site: skynet.csn.ul.ie /pub/linux/utils
                mswordview-0.1.0.tar.gz
Original-site:  skynet.csn.ul.ie /pub/linux/utils
                mswordview-0.1.0.tar.gz
Copying-policy: GNU
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