Document conversion.

zippy · Post by **zippy** » 14 Jul 2003, 13:14

Hi there.
 
 I am running Redhat Linux V9.
 
 I wondering if anyone knows of a utility/utilities to changed files between a couple of formats.
 
 The formats are PDF, excel and powerpoint. I need to convert the text and *only* the text contained within the files into a text document.
 
 I found wvText to convert from word documents to text.
 
 Many thanks for your help

Post by **OnlyOneKenobi** » 14 Jul 2003, 13:17

With the pdf´s you´re going to be needing the full Acrobat suite, not just the reader, since you´re modifying the doc. Last time I checked Word and Excel had inbuilt functionality to save .xls and .doc files as .txt files.
 
 Oops... just read you´re using Linux, so you prob. don´t have Excel, Word, etc... feel pretty dumbass now. <IMG SRC="images/forum/smilies/icon_frown.gif"> [ Edited by OnlyOneKenobi On Date July 14, 2003 ]

gareth007 · Post by **gareth007** » 14 Jul 2003, 15:37

There is a program under linux called xpdf.
 Its a suite of utilities for Xwindoze.

Adelante · Post by **Adelante** » 21 Jul 2003, 20:17

Solution, Install Open Office from the RedHat9 Cd´s (or download the redhat rpm) its like a linux version of MS WORD/EXEL/POWERPOINT/etc, that should sort all your problems out.