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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

Someone just emailed me 8 pages of .doc files containing nothing but 
scanned images, after I asked her specifically to send png, gif, pbm, or 
pdf.

Antiword -p letter -i 2 Doc1.doc > Doc1.ps produced a small ps file which 
bmv displayed as a blank and which caused X to crash when I tried to view 
with the latest gs.  Viewed with less, I can see that the file contains a 
lot of stuff about title and creator and lots of encodings about macron 
and plusminus and something about fonts, but absolutely no content (no 
image).

I tried Abiword in BL3 (don't have xset yet in BL2 to set it up with) and 
it displays the file perfectly on screen but I don't have BL3 set up to 
print ps files.  So I saved as html.  When I try to view with lynx I get a 
lot of garbage.

I am about to try DOS wvare next, and will then resign myself to 
translating from the screen between two computers.  Nice to have Abiword, 
which is supposedly based on wvware.  I wonder why it can display images 
but not save them as images.  Maybe rtf?

Abiword just stopped working as soon as I changed the file name to .rtf
(won't let me choose to save it as rtf) and now it refuses to load from 
rxvt in X.  Or from the menu.  And when I try to exit X (Ctl-Alt-Del) I 
get a blank blue screen with a few green stripes at the top.  Fun with 
Xvesa again.

ps - no X running.

Since it is the weekend they can't send me anything again until Monday and 
someone else wants me to translate two large colored jpeg files for 
Tuesday which were originally a black and white 2-page document and are 
probably now too fuzzy to read since jpegs are lossy by default.  I long 
for the good old days when people sent everything by FedEx and I had to 
send back perfect typed copy using Whiteout.  At least I could read 
things.



keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org
SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org