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

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------- Additional Comments From aldo-public laposte net  2008-01-17 13:42 -------
 #1: the parallel isn't quite right, as okular is not an editor but only a viewer.
Using okular to display .pdf, .ps, and why not also .txt and .doc files, is no more overkill than using kaffeine to play .avi, .mkv, .wav or .mp3 files.
An other question is also when you click on a .wav, do you usually want to just play it, or edit it ?
Of course, the answer depends on the use case, but I think one can ask the same question for txt files, for which opening a text editor is not always the best answer.

Furthermore, Okular could have options for a good displaying (pretty printing) of text files, which should be quite different from the presentation of text files for edition.
One way to do that should be to use the a2ps tool (or whatever lib it uses), which transforms a lot of file formats into a nice postscript, and then to display the postscript in Okular.