[Okular-devel] [Bug 155938] support for MS Word documents

[David Short]

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------- Additional Comments From david.short mensa org au  2008-08-09 03:13 -------
Hmm, this may be a step in the wrong direction.  Word .doc files are drafts rather than final documents.  They can look very different on different systems.  If we're going to support .doc, we should support .odt, .abw and .tex too.  In fact, I'd prefer to see those supported rather than a closed format.

<goes to do some tests>

Okular supports .odt!  And as you might expect, not very well.  My CV's layout is totally messed up by Okular.  I don't think you can expect a document viewer to deal with draft formats properly.  Just open it in OpenOffice.org, and expect to have to change fonts etc to make it work on your system.

As for plain text, well, you can't really go wrong with it.  It may be unnecessary, but it can do no harm.  I don't imagine the .txt backend will generate many bug reports.