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

[Brad Hards]

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------- Additional Comments From bradh frogmouth net  2008-08-10 01:50 -------
On Saturday 09 August 2008 07:20:35 pm Dotan Cohen wrote:
> 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.

I don't think Okular has any .doc rendering. What makes you think it does?

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

Probably, if someone was willing to do the (fairly significant) amount of 
coding work. Given the relatively small number of Okular developers, I'd 
personally prefer to see that work put into other formats, but that isn't 
quite how free software development works.

Presumably there will be .doc support if someone codes it.

Brad