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[ILUG] Oowriter to text

[ILUG] Oowriter to text

Tony Groves tongro at eircom.net
Sat Apr 16 15:29:56 IST 2005


ilug-request at linux.ie wrote:
> From:
> Paul Mc Auley <paul at peema.org>
> 
> Does anybody know of a filter program which reads an oowriter file,
> either as stdin or as a file and pushes ASCII (preferably in a
> reasonably readable rendition of the original layout) to stdout?

What you could do is to unzip the file (it's a zip-format archive), open 
"content.xml", and dump all the non-markup text. This will give you the 
unformatted content.

If you need formatting, then the Perl module mentioned previously would 
probably be the way to go.

Tony.



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