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  Files Carter Temm <crtbraille@gmail.com> - 2014-10-25 06:54 -0700
    Re: Files "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> - 2014-10-25 17:14 +0200
    Re: Files Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2014-10-25 19:34 +0200
      Re: Files Joao Rodrigues <groups_jr-1@yahoo.com> - 2014-10-26 11:44 -0200
        Re: Files Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2014-10-26 15:20 +0100
          Re: Files Joao Rodrigues <groups_jr-1@yahoo.com.br> - 2014-10-27 15:22 -0200
            Re: Files Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2014-10-27 21:54 +0100
              Re: Files Joao Rodrigues <groups_jr-1@yahoo.com.br> - 2014-10-28 11:15 -0200

#25984 — Files

Is there anyway to create a file converter? I am talking about convert Microsoft Word files to plane text, ETC. if this is possible, can I please have a code?

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#25985

Carter Temm <crtbraille@gmail.com> wrote on 25 okt 2014 in
comp.lang.javascript: 

> Is there anyway to create a file converter? I am talking about convert
> Microsoft Word files to plane text, ETC. 

If you mean using Javascript?

Yes.

> if this is possible, can I please have a code? 

Why would you think, 
that if something is possible, 
that it would have been done?

And if it was done, 
that the writer would divulge his source-code?

Methinks, you will have to write it yourself,
after serious study about the ins and outs of a .docx file.

Could you do that?

Methinks not, given your Q.

-- 
Evertjan.
The Netherlands.
(Please change the x'es to dots in my emailaddress)

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#25986

Carter Temm wrote:

> Is there anyway to create a file converter?

(_any way_)

Yes, there are several ways.  What is your runtime environment?

> I am talking about convert Microsoft Word files to plane text,

(_plain_)

You need to specify “Microsoft Word files” as well.  There is the binary, 
fully proprietary format that is backwards-compatible to Microsoft Word for 
Windows 6.0 (filename suffix .doc or DOC), and there is the somewhat 
standardized format of Word XML (part of Office Open XML, ECMA-376), which 
are basically zipped XML documents, that is used by Microsoft Word 2003 and 
later (filename suffix .docx or .DOCX).

> ETC. if this is possible, can I please have a code?

Probably, yes.

However, are you sure that you have posted to the correct newsgroup?

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#25988

On 10/25/2014 03:34 PM, Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn wrote:
> Carter Temm wrote:

<snip>

>> I am talking about convert Microsoft Word files to plane text,
> 
> (_plain_)
> 
> You need to specify “Microsoft Word files” as well.  There is the binary, 
> fully proprietary format that is backwards-compatible to Microsoft Word for 
> Windows 6.0 (filename suffix .doc or DOC), and there is the somewhat 
> standardized format of Word XML (part of Office Open XML, ECMA-376), which 
> are basically zipped XML documents, that is used by Microsoft Word 2003 and 
> later (filename suffix .docx or .DOCX).

.doc was the file format used in MS Word 97-2003, and .docx appeared as
of Word 2007. But one could open .docx files in earlier versions of Word
using the "Microsoft Compatibility Pack".

<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Microsoft_Office_filename_extensions>


-- 
Joao Rodrigues

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#25989

Joao Rodrigues wrote:

> .doc was the file format used in MS Word 97-2003, and .docx appeared as
> of Word 2007. […]

Simply wrong.

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PointedEars
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#25990

On 26/10/2014 12:20, Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn wrote:
> Joao Rodrigues wrote:
> 
>> .doc was the file format used in MS Word 97-2003, and .docx appeared as
>> of Word 2007. […]
> 
> Simply wrong.
> 

You don't know what you're talking about.

-- 
Joao Rodrigues

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#25992

Joao Rodrigues wrote:

> On 26/10/2014 12:20, Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn wrote:
>> Joao Rodrigues wrote:
>>> .doc was the file format used in MS Word 97-2003, and .docx appeared as
>>> of Word 2007. […]
>> Simply wrong.
> 
> You don't know what you're talking about.
 
It's the pot calling the kettle black again.  Probably in contrast to you,
I have been there.  I have opened and created DOCX documents with a default 
setup of Microsoft Word 2003 back in 2006.  I have also created DOC 
documents with a default setup of Word for Windows 6.0 back in the 1990s.  
(Actually, the DOC format dates back even further.)

So, *everything* in your statement is wrong:

1. .doc was _not_ introduced with MS Word 97; see also the date in [1].

2. .doc has _not_ ceased to be supported with Word 2003; it is still
   supported (read/write) by the more recent versions of Microsoft Word,
   for example Word 2010 where the “File Type” in the “Save As” dialog is
   labeled in German „Word 97-2003-Dokument“ because the format was
   not formally specified before those versions.

3. Office Open XML and its subset Word XML (.docx) were_not_ introduced with
   Office 2007, but with Office 2003.  It only was not the *default* before
   version 2007 (probably because the Specification was not finished yet). 
   ECMA-376, that is based on it, was approved by the Ecma General Assembly
   in December 2006.

_______
[1] <http://www.iana.org/assignments/media-types/application/msword>
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PointedEars
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#26007

On 27/10/2014 18:54, Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn wrote:
> Joao Rodrigues wrote:
> 
>> On 26/10/2014 12:20, Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn wrote:
>>> Joao Rodrigues wrote:
>>>> .doc was the file format used in MS Word 97-2003, and .docx appeared as
>>>> of Word 2007. […]
>>> Simply wrong.
>>
>> You don't know what you're talking about.
>  
> It's the pot calling the kettle black again.  Probably in contrast to you,
> I have been there. 

I've been using the Microsoft Office suite since 1995, and I've been
using MS Office 2003 until 2011, when I moved on to the 2007 version.
That's why I can say there was not a .docx file format in Word 2003,
unless one have installed the "Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack". In
addition, there is a Microsoft's article about it: "Open a Word 2007
document in an earlier version of Word"
<https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Open-a-Word-2007-document-in-an-earlier-version-of-Word-8fe47805-64a9-4cc5-a115-b148625fe043?ui=en-US&rs=en-US&ad=US>

> I have opened and created DOCX documents with a default 
> setup of Microsoft Word 2003 back in 2006.

Certainly, you have been updating your Windows / Office installation
with the "Windows Update" and / or you have installed the "Microsoft
Office Compatibility Pack".

> I have also created DOC 
> documents with a default setup of Word for Windows 6.0 back in the 1990s.  
> (Actually, the DOC format dates back even further.)

ACK. I recall using .doc files since 1995.

> 
> So, *everything* in your statement is wrong:

Not *everything*.

> 
> 1. .doc was _not_ introduced with MS Word 97; see also the date in [1].

I have not written that the .doc file format was introduced with the MS
Word 97.

> 
> 2. .doc has _not_ ceased to be supported with Word 2003; it is still
>    supported (read/write) by the more recent versions of Microsoft Word,
>    for example Word 2010 where the “File Type” in the “Save As” dialog is
>    labeled in German „Word 97-2003-Dokument“ because the format was
>    not formally specified before those versions.

I have not written that ".doc has ceased to be supported with Word 2003".

> 
> 3. Office Open XML and its subset Word XML (.docx) were_not_ introduced with
>    Office 2007, but with Office 2003.  It only was not the *default* before
>    version 2007 (probably because the Specification was not finished yet). 
>    ECMA-376, that is based on it, was approved by the Ecma General Assembly
>    in December 2006.


Incorrect. MS Word 2003 supported XML, but the .docx binary file format
was introduced with the MS Word 2007. You are mistaking the two things.

-- 
Joao Rodrigues

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