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

[Dotan Cohen]

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------- Additional Comments From kde-2 dotancohen com  2008-08-10 14:56 -------
> I don't think Okular has any .doc rendering. What
> makes you think it does? 

Comment #6, where I mistook .odt support for .doc. Sorry.

> Probably, if someone was willing to do the (fairly
> significant) amount of coding work.

Open Office can convert a .doc to PDF from the command line (no need to open GUI component). The resulting PDF can then be rendered by Okular. This should be relatively simple to code, and will offload the .doc rendering to a project that has already invested many resources in implementing .doc, and continues to do so. In fact, by this method, Okular could render anything that Open Office could render. See this page for more information on OOo supported formats and converting between them via OOo:
http://dag.wieers.com/home-made/unoconv/