Re: [Tracker] wvText is deprecated

["Klemens Friedl" <frik85 gmail com>]

2007/9/26, jamie <jamiemcc blueyonder co uk>:
> we already use libgsf for getting metadata from ms office and open
> office
> [...]
> for getting plain text we use existing tools like wvtext and o3read in
> shell scripts
> [...]
> can libgsf be used for getting plain text from office docs - if so we
> could write our own app to do that
yes; I have especially ask for that feature (extract plain text and
metadata); as I need it for my project too.
wvware used a forked copy of the older libole2 which Jody Goldberg had
maintained.  Goldberg mentioned that it was ok for reading files <
6.8meg and handled simple metadata and he pointed out that libgsf is
superior.

> pls confirm with any code samples if its possible?
sorry, i don't have any related code right now.
I am currently porting GLib and libgsf to a non-unix platform.


Klemens