Read INSTALL for install information, basically pretty standard requirements for a modern *NIX program plus libwmf to convert wmf files to something useful. There are now a small herd of programs based upon libwv. AbiWord (http://www.abisource.com/) is the most interesting and complete one that we're aware of. 1) wvWare: this is what you are looking for, it converts Word 2,6,7,8,9 files to html and latex. The Word 2 conversion is still incomplete (no formatting), but it will do a passable job extracting the text, which is what you probably want anyway. 2) The small army of helper scripts: wvHtml wvLatex wvCleanLatex wvPS wvDVI wvPDF wvMime wvText ... Do: `man wvXXX` where "XXX" is Html, Latex, etc.. for more information 3) wvSummary, displays the summary information stream of *all* ole2 files, i.e Excel, PowerPoint, Visio, Access etc etc etc, I've sent wvSummary as a patch to the file program, so that utility should in the future have this ability to know what windows application created the ole2 document. `man wvSummary` 4) wvVersion, outputs the version of the word format which the document is stored as. `man wvVersion` Also... 5) There are helper applications in the helper-scripts dir that allow both lynx and netscape to view word 8 docs easily 6) The webpage is at http://wvware.sourceforge.net/ Finally... 7) libwv can be used as a library by third party programs, abiword uses it as its word importer, and kword may use it in the future. wvWare is a sample application for the use of wv, as is abiword itself. The library (will be some day) documented in the Documentation dir 8) The config file format is (beginning to be) documented in the Documentation dir, so it may be possible to achieve the conversion that you desire without writing your own program. It also allows you to customize the html and latex output to your own tastes. Some possible "fun" projects: (Projects for someone to try out with libwv include, could be commercial applications) a) wvMacroRemove, deletes macros out of word files, for the security concious b) wvFastToFull, converts fastsaved docs to full saved, shrinking their size usually by quite a lot, and also making them safe for security consious firms c) wvCrackProtection, take the wvDecrypt97 code and make a cracker that uses the rc4 algorithm and other known bit of information to crack word documents, ala http://www.crak.com
