Wv for Windows

Wv:

Version

1.0.2

Description

wv is a library which allows access to Microsoft Word files. It can load and parse Word 2000, 97, 95 and 6 file formats. (These are the file formats known internally as Word 9, 8, 7 and 6.) There is some support for reading earlier formats as well: Word 2 docs are converted to plaintext.

Provided with the wv distribution is an application called wvWare. wvWare is a "power-user" application with lots of command-line options, doo-dads, bells, and whistles. Less interesting, but more convenient, are the helper scripts that use wvWare. These are:

• wvHtml: convert your Word document into HTML4.0
• wvLatex: convert your Word document into visually (pretty) correct LaTeX
• wvCleanLatex: convert into 'cleaner' LaTeX containing less visual mark-up, more suitable for further use and LyX import. Work in progress
• wvDVI: converts word to DVI. Requires 'latex'
• wvPS: converts word to PostScript. Requires 'dvips'
• wvPDF: converts word to Adobe PDF. Requires 'distill' from Adobe [Someone do a pdflatex or pdfhtml version :-)]
• wvText: converts word to plain text. Textually correct output requires 'lynx.' For poor output, this doesn't require anything special.
• wvAbw: converts word to Abiword format. (Far better just to use Abiword.)
• wvWml: converts word to WML for viewing on portable devices like WebPhones and Palm Pilots.
• wvRtf: a basic version exists
• wvMime: can be plugged as a MIME helper application into your browser/mail client; presents the document on-screen inside GhostView, while all intermediate files generated go into the /tmp directory.

Homepage

http://wvware.sourceforge.net

Download

If you download the Setup program of the package, the dependencies as listed below under Requirements, are already included if they are available from GnuWin32; so, standard operating-system libraries, such as msvcrt.dll, are not included. If you download the package as Zip files, then you must download and install the dependencies zip file yourself.

You can also download the files from the GnuWin32 files page.

You can monitor new releases of the port of this package.

Installation and Usage

General Installation Instructions

Requirements

• MS-Windows 95 / 98 / ME / NT / 2000 / XP with msvcrt.dll. If msvcrt.dll is not in your Windows/System folder, get it from Microsoft or by installing Internet Explorer 4.0 or higher
• freetype
• jpeg
• libiconv
• libpng
• libwmf
• libxml2
• plotutils
• zlib
• libgw32c (for developing with the Wv library)