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* On 12-01-00 at 19:05 Paul W. Abrahams (abrahams@mbs.valinet.com) wrote: +----Here quoted text begins----+
I'm quite sure Netscape doesn't support the .doc format; it assumes it will be interpreted by a helper application, normally Word itself. The problem with using Star Office under Linux for this purpose is that you have to provide the necessary fonts, although that can be done by installing TrueType support (another subject in itself). +----and here the quote ends----+
There is another problem, you could get a word viewer like mswordview or wordview to automatically display word documents, but how to tell netscape which programe to use for ms word 5 (office 95) and which for ms word 8 (office 97/2000) documents? Allthough mswordview does display a lot of pages - at least the text there is actually no programe in linux that I have tried that would "properly" (by that I mean to display fonts and/or images, tables, ...) display word docs. That is actually 2 bad couse most of my country uses doze and like the rest of the world every third person attaches *.doc files to e-mail and I really wouldn't like to run StarOffice every time just to see 4 lines of text ;) (not that SO would work everytime - at least not for me). I hope anyone has some better experience with some word converter/vewver for linux and can help all of us that are forced to view doc files out. Bostjan a.k.a. neonatus -- Bo¹tjan Müller [NEONATUS], NEONATUS@bigfoot.com, http://surf.to/NEONATUS RSA id: 0x90178DBD, ICQ #:7506644, PGP key: finger neonatus@gimp.thz.net GEEK CODE = PGP key Registered Linux User #87774, Powered by SuSE Linux 6.2 "I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy." -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/