Word Conversion

[Guest]

Hi,

Is there a way (or an sdk) where you can convert word documents to any other
formats without having word / office installed ? Thanks.

 

[Pat Garard]

G'Day Dev,

If you download OpenOffice 2.2 (it's FREE) from www.openoffice.org, then
the Writer program will:
Open Word '.doc' format files - usually very successfully
Save edits back to '.doc' format or Word 2003 XML format
Save As Open Office/Star Office OASIS/ODF format
Save As RTF, Starwriter, HTML, AportisDoc ('.pdb' - Palm),
DocBook (XML) and/or Pocket Word ('.psw' - Windows Mobile)
Export to PDF

Open Office is the core of Sun MicroSystems' Star Office (a very respectable
office suite) see:
http://www.sun.com/software/star/staroffice/index.jsp

 

[Herb Tyson [MVP]]

There used to be something called Word for Word (w4w), made by a company
called MasterWork. It was acquired by Adobe, but I don't know the current
status. However, the product contained converters that could convert between
just about any two word processing formats. I know that XyWrite 4 used the
capabilities.

You'd need to do some Google research to see if the converters still exist.
If Adobe still makes them, you can count on them not being inexpensive.

 

[Guest]

Thanks. That is exactely what i wanted...but it seems that it does not exist
anymore!