FC4 - kword

Dotan Cohen dotancohen at gmail.com
Fri Jul 29 11:28:46 UTC 2005


On 7/25/05, David Cary Hart <fedora at tqmcube.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-07-25 at 16:41 +0100, Jonathan Allen wrote:
> > Hi all (yet again - this has been quite a day, hasn't it),
> >
> > I see that 'kword' or 'koffice' is not longer a part of FC4, but hasn't
> > made it into the Extras yet.  I used 'kword' to open and pick the pieces
> > out of PDF files (ie grab and save the pictures and turn save the text),
> > so what I can use in FC4 to do that ?
> >
> I use: http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdftohtml/
> 
> html to text is simple with 'lynx -dump'

Why are certain KDE packages removed from FC? Kword is GPL, and does
not violate any copyright issues (mp3,..), so why remove it? There are
other programs that I feel are 'missing' as well.

Dotan Cohen
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