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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: viewing docx files
Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2017 12:01:36 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvwpdfktqy.fsf-monnier+gmane.emacs.help@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 159e5d90450.2800.9343beaceee5adfd5722805b7ce72987@gmail.com

> Oh, I see. So DocViewer just converts everything to plaintext?

Worse: it converts it to a set of PNG.  There is some support for
searching, but Emacs doesn't see the text really (other than as an
image), so Emacspeak won't b able to do anything useful with it.

So indeed, you'll be much better off going through something like HTML.

BTW, I think many people (including myself) would be interested in an
alternative to doc-view-mode which renders such documents as (decorated)
text rather than as images, e.g. going through HTML and then rendered
with shr.el.


        Stefan




  reply	other threads:[~2017-01-28 17:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-01-28 15:36 viewing docx files Devin Prater
2017-01-28 16:07 ` tomas
2017-01-28 16:12   ` Devin Prater
2017-01-28 17:01     ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2017-01-29  5:11       ` Narendra Joshi
2017-01-29  7:25         ` Stefan Monnier
2017-01-28 16:14   ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-01-28 17:02     ` Jude DaShiell
2017-01-28 16:21   ` Joost Kremers
2017-01-28 20:10 ` Tomas Nordin
2017-01-29 22:30 ` Tomas Nordin
2017-01-29 22:51   ` Joost Kremers
2017-01-30  7:21     ` Jude DaShiell
2017-01-30  8:30       ` Yuri Khan
2017-01-30 22:03         ` Tomas Nordin
2017-01-31 14:56         ` Stefan Monnier
2017-01-31 18:08           ` Jude DaShiell
2017-01-30 21:49   ` Tomas Nordin

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