Thank you, Matheiu, and others. I ultimately succeeded and here report my experiences with the options.
1. I found several on-line free conversion services. For various reasons such as security and privacy I did not pursue them. 2. Install OpenOffice and OpenOffice.OpenXML Translator. Because this contradicted my desire for command line conversion rather than install big GUI apps, I did not pursue. 3. Abiword can be used to convert the document format from .docx to, say, .pdf. It was my intent to use a command line utility instead, but here report that Abiword did in fact work and automatically detected the input format. 4. Antiword-for-Office is a perl script, but when I tried to compile, found I was missing the perl Archive::Zip module. Not knowing what to do about that and too little time to find out, I did not pursue. 5. Unoconv script is a debian package and seems what I really want. However, when I ran it, I found that it depends on JRE, although "$ aptitude show unoconv" indicates that it depends on python. In any case, I don't happen to have JRE installed in current box, and so did not pursue. 6. Odf-converter. This is a perl script. It requires libtiff.so.3, but by symlinking found that it can use libtiff.so.4 instead. With it I was able to generate an .otf file, which of course required Abiword to convert to PDF since I can't use unoconv. Haines Brown -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87630zwj64....@teufel.historicalmaterialism.info
