02-23-2006
Your options (may be incomplete):
1) Install OpenOffice.org. It opens and saves MS Office documents in principle but chances are it may not open your documents correctly. You can always test with the Windows version of OpenOffice.org first. If it is okay on Windows, it is most likely okay on Linux. Do install the latest version 2.x but not 1.x.
2) Use some emulation software like VMWare or Xen and run your Windows and MS Office in it. I have no experience with this.
3) Run MS Office with Wine. Not necessarily work either.
I believe you can dig out some information by searching for "run MS Office on Linux" from Google.
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fig2sxd
FIG2SXD(1) General Commands Manual FIG2SXD(1)
NAME
fig2sxd - utility to convert .fig to .sxd
SYNOPSIS
fig2sxd [-w] [-l(ine)w(idth)1 l] figfile sxdfile
DESCRIPTION
The program tries to convert the given file in xfig format into a sxd file for OpenOffice.org Draw. If figfile ends with .fig or .xfig and
sxdfile is omitted, the output file will be named like figfile ending with .sxd instead of .(x)fig. Using - for figfile makes the program
read from stdin so that it is possible to use
pstoedit -f fig file.ps - | fig2sxd - file.sxd
to convert ps files. (For files with many objects you might want to use something like
pstoedit -f 'fig:-startdepth 9999' file.ps - | fig2sxd - file.sxd
to get more layers; the output of pstoedit then is no longer a valid xfig file, but it makes the z ordering of the objects in Open-
Office.org Draw stay correct.) Using - for sxdfile makes the program write to stdout. With the -linewidth1 (or -lw1) option, the width of
lines with thickness 1 in xfig can be set, unit is 1 cm. Using 0 here gives fine lines. Example:
pstoedit -f 'fig:-startdepth 9999' file.ps - | fig2sxd -lw1 0 - file.sxd
With the -w option, out-of-specification values are only warnings but will be sanitized.
DEFICIENCIES
Not all of the .fig objects are converted correctly: splines look quite similar, but are not exactly the same; text placement might be a
little bit wrong, especially for very small font sizes; hatches look different in many cases; hollow arrows are not supported and replaced
by their filled counterparts. There are various other things that could be improved.
It looks like OpenOffice.org cannot read xml attribute values longer than 64kB as they might appear for very long polygons/-lines. For
unfilled polylines, fig2sxd therefore creates several smaller polylines of 500 points each and groups them together. Splitting an arbitrary
filled polygon is not trivial and not implemented.
SEE ALSO
pstoedit(1), xfig(1) and http://fig2sxd.sourceforge.net/ (for updates).
AUTHOR
Program and manual page were written by Alexander Burger <acfb@users.sourceforge.net>.
FIG2SXD(1)