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

[Dotan Cohen]

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------- Additional Comments From kde-2 dotancohen com  2008-08-09 11:20 -------
> Word .doc files are drafts rather than final
> documents. They can look very different on
> different systems.

While it is true that Word documents look different on different versions of MS Office and service packs, different Windows OSs, different screen resolutions, and even different colour depth, the differences are very minor and are caused by programming errors in MSO, not intentional. However, that does not make .doc files 'drafts', in fact, in most environments that I have shared documents in (work, university, and even FWD: emails) .doc is used to share the final copy. Not because the format is ideal, but rather because it is a common format in the MS world.

I also do not support 'de facto' standards, however, that is an argument for not making .doc the native format of any program / organization. It is NOT and argument for not having a document viewer support the format. Be conservative in what you produce, and liberal in what you accept, no?

I would assume (I cannot check at the moment, sorry) that Okular's .doc rendering would be based upon KOffice's rendering. If so, as KOffice's rendering is poor, so then would be Okular's. Open Office has a very accurate .doc rendering algorithm as of version 2.4.

Can the OOo renderer be used as a plugin to Okular?