On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 3:32 PM, sebastian maemo <sebastian.maemo@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 2008/11/14, COURTAUD Didier <didier.courtaud@xxxxxx>: >> I receive frequenty such files my email on my tablet. >> >> How can I read them on the tablet ? > > You can convert DOC and PPT files to PDF with OpenOffice (from you > Desktop). OpenOffice is free and available for GNU and Windows and > more... > > Salut, > Sebas. That's a good point, and there are actually lots of ways to convert documents to PDF, but that only allows you to read them on the tablet, not edit them. If all you need to do is read them, you can convert to PDF from any application by using one of the "print to PDF" utilities, some of which are free. PDFCreator (http://www.pdfforge.org/) is probably the best of those. However, the original question was was asking how to open documents attached to email on the tablet, which implies without the aid of another machine. I only know of two ways: 1) Install Easy Debian and use OOo on the tablet or 2) Use Google Docs, which can convert to PDF as well as open the Microsoft formats The former requires a large SD card and is probably very slow, the latter requires an active Internet connection and isn't as reliable in dealing with the formatting. YMMV, but I have yet to get Abiword to open anything other than its own proprietary format - even plain text or HTML files don't work. Mark _______________________________________________ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@xxxxxxxxx https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
