I was exchanging emails with a Training Agency and they sent me an application form as a PDF.
I replied to them that I was using neither x86 nor Mac, and that I didn't think that I could decode their form. I said that I could handle plain text (ASCII), RTF, and WordWorth files ..... maybe even plain Postscript as I have an old version of PageStream.
WELL ... I
did[/i] find "pdftotext"; found that it outputed plain text, and re-formatted the copy in WordWorth!
THE NEXT day they sent me an email with, they said, a "Word" file! The actual attached file ended in ".doc"!
Well, I imported it into WordWorth to see what would happen, and got a heap of gibberish 150 times BIGGER than the plain-text file! The 'original' readable part was near the start and, after a heap (remember 150 times bigger) of gibberish at the very end was:
È Ê 6 8 3 5 Ò Ô Ö ñ ó ï m
h h þ h h þ h h þ ; X ÿ Body Text 2 Body Text 3 Body
Text 2 Body Text Indent 2 Body Text Balloon Text
D D H ÿ F F F
À ù Ð ú Ð û Ð Ð ü ý þ ÿ
 x Ð Ð Ð Ð 0ý Þ É# (/ ¨0 ¾0
¨0 ° ¨0 ³ 8
Tms Rmn ` Symbol Helv Times New Roman Arial Wingdings Tahoma Times New Roman CE
Times New Roman Cyr Times New Roman Greek Times New Roman Tur Times New Roman (Hebrew)
Times New Roman (Arabic) Times New Roman Baltic Times New Roman (Vietnamese) Arial CE Arial Cyr
Arial Greek Arial Tur Arial (Hebrew) Arial (Arabic) Arial Baltic Arial (Vietnamese) Tahoma CE
Tahoma Cyr Tahoma Greek
Tahoma Tur Tahoma (Hebrew) Tahoma (Arabic) Tahoma Baltic Tahoma (Vietnamese) Tahoma (Thai) '
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