Hi,

I'm receiving more and more docx format documents from our customers and I would need a solution to be able to view them and convert them and print them! Antiword unfortunately seems not be able to handle these kind of documents anymore!

Is there any solution available? Any hints?

"anymore"? Well, antiword never did XML.
How about this? http://www.docx2doc.com/convert/docx-to-doc

youre right, never did is correct! Sorry for my bad english!
I'm looking gor a local solution, some converter which I can use under MorphOS, perhaps a python script or so because I get a lot of these .docx

@RMS:

view and edit is not really a problem except it will not be in a "WYSIWYG" way!
Because a .doc file is just a zip file, like OpenRaster, containing .xml files.

It's defined by the workgroup http://openxmldeveloper.org/
So to view and edit, unzip the .docx file and take a look at the 'word' directory: all texts are represented here by .xml files.

As it's normal text files (UTF8 ?) you can easly open/edit/save them.
Whendone, juste re-zip the whole

First Note: not good to use OpenXML, it's a Microsoft proposed format, now a ISO standard (ISO/IEC 29500) but accepted as it in some troubles conditions (see http://news.cnet.com/8301-10784_3-9909499-7.html?tag=newsmap).

OpenDocument standard (ISO/IEC 26300:2006) already exists and more interoperable than this MS std.

The other point is many ISO members involved in the votation process have joined the group during months or days just before the vote. Most of them with a particular opinion (pro or cons)! That descredit the ISO process... but as it's an "industrial" group, it's not a big surpise

Second note: Google Doc online service is able to open and edit .docx file.

[ Edited by Yomgui on 2010/3/19 11:57 ]

@ yomgui

thanks for all that infos...

I dont need wysiwyg at all! I need to extract the textes so I can edit them with e. g. PageStream and do a new and professionnal layout. Antiword did a quite good job, as it was possible to either convert the .doc to postscript, then I could print it in sending it to par: or I could transform the resulting postscript file with ghostscript to a pdf, or I just saved the content of the . doc as ascii text.

As unfortunately there seems not to be a "local" solution with MorphOS I had a look at google.doc online service but I wasnt able to abload a file with OWB, I get a black rectancle on the upload selecter? (I'm logged in and have an account though).

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