On Fri, Oct 30, 2015 at 02:04:55PM -0600, Swift Griggs wrote: > On Fri, 30 Oct 2015, Mayuresh wrote: > >>Minimal == antiword (converts word docs to text) > >Tried. Cute one, but seems to say "is not a Word Document." for just too > >many files. > > It only works on doc (Word 97 or before, I think) files not the newer DOCX > files (which are really zip files full of MS garbage). > > >>Small == abiword (standalone word processors that supports MS DOC[X] files) > >Trying. Would abiword-plugins improve compatibility with MS/Open/Libre? > > They do improve it's import/export functionality quite a bit. I can tell you > right now that Abiword doesn't do as good a job rendering as libre/open > office does. However, it's great if you just need to read a word document > someone sent you at work. Abiword also works pretty well if you can keep the > document in Abiword the whole time and just export Word 97 format at the > end.
<rant> Why would you open up a big clunky *editor* to read a document? Get back to them and tell them to send you a PDF version of the thing instead. The option to export to PDF is right there, in the menu. </rant> Works for me... ... sometimes. -- :: Andreas Kusalananda Kähäri, Bioinformatics Developer, BILS, :: Uppsala University, Sweden ::---------------------------------------------------------------------- :: My other car is a cdr.
