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MSWordView

last update: July 28, 1998

MSWordView is a program that can understand the microsofts word 8 binary file format (office97), it currently converts word into html, which can then be read with a browser.

See http://www.csn.ul.ie/~caolan/docs/MSWordView.html

Current Features include

ability to understand fastsaved files as well as non-fastsaved files.
conversion of word header paragraph style into appropiate header levels of html.
conversion of font attributes such as italic, bold and font size into html tags
conversion of word tables into html tables.
conversion of ms symbol and wingding font into gif pics for html output, so math done directly in word shows up fairly alright, note not equation editor, thats an ole embedded type
encoding of non-west-european ascii languages into utf-8 encoding, which should work with at least netscape.
some understanding of lists, lists are suprisingly difficult.
slightly less understanding of headers and footers.

Non Supported Features include

text justification
embedded graphics or other embedded types
guaranteed proper handling of headers and footers
fully correct conversion of tab stops and other formatting done by the user done with whitespace
correct conversion of lists, all lists become bullet pointed lists (<ul>)
word 6 and 7 etc arent currently supported, just word 8. mswordview cant understand these formats as they're somewhat different.

Defects are

mswordview uses laola to extract the ole streams from the document, and on occasion laola cant cope with some files, i.e corrupt docs and some large docs.

it must remain intact and the contents unchanged; if you'd like to have something changed, contact me instead. Reformatting (e.g. from HTML to some other presentation format) is granted as long as the contents are unchanged.
you may NOT ask money for it except a reasonable cost for media and distribution