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Mike Bourke
Hi all,
I've been trying to track down a small app (not a full office suite!) that
will take an .rtf file and the page parameters (width & height) and generate
in plain text an index to the document. I don't care if it makes an entry
for "and" "but" and "the" - I can edit those out - I just want a listing of
every word in the document and what printed pages they will appear on.
The app must accept RTF files (to allow for different fonts and font sizes)
and run on Win98 or earlier - I can cope with Win95, Win3.1, or even a DOS
app!
I would prefer it if the page dimensions could be specified in mm or cm, but
can cope if the app only understands inches.
I tried a web search for such a product and found dozens of options for
generating indexes of the contents of a folder, or for generating index
pages for web sites, or for reading index.dat files, or converting plain
..txt to .rtf, or even for indexing every document on a hard drive for fast
searching - in fact, just about everything you can think of relating to the
word "index" except what I was looking for.
The office suites and more advanced programs generally force you to go
through the document manually selecting which words you want entered into
the index - open office does it that way, for example - but I think it would
be easier and lots faster to just delete one or more lines of index
containing words you don't care about. If I have to, I'll use OO but I'm
really looking for a more brute-force solution - probably an older, simpler
app.
Thanks in advance,
Mike Bourke.
I've been trying to track down a small app (not a full office suite!) that
will take an .rtf file and the page parameters (width & height) and generate
in plain text an index to the document. I don't care if it makes an entry
for "and" "but" and "the" - I can edit those out - I just want a listing of
every word in the document and what printed pages they will appear on.
The app must accept RTF files (to allow for different fonts and font sizes)
and run on Win98 or earlier - I can cope with Win95, Win3.1, or even a DOS
app!
I would prefer it if the page dimensions could be specified in mm or cm, but
can cope if the app only understands inches.
I tried a web search for such a product and found dozens of options for
generating indexes of the contents of a folder, or for generating index
pages for web sites, or for reading index.dat files, or converting plain
..txt to .rtf, or even for indexing every document on a hard drive for fast
searching - in fact, just about everything you can think of relating to the
word "index" except what I was looking for.
The office suites and more advanced programs generally force you to go
through the document manually selecting which words you want entered into
the index - open office does it that way, for example - but I think it would
be easier and lots faster to just delete one or more lines of index
containing words you don't care about. If I have to, I'll use OO but I'm
really looking for a more brute-force solution - probably an older, simpler
app.
Thanks in advance,
Mike Bourke.