Mark wrote: > 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. > Not nitpicking, but trying to point to a possible resolution: you *do* need an active internet connection to receive your mail - so using Goo-Docs doesn't sound like you'd be going "out of your way". Now to the fun part: depending on your setup (ISP etc.) you may very well automate the task of doc->pdf conversion and stick to email usage on your IT. Here's how (based on my personal experience and currently employed technique for spam filtering on my POP account which is not SPAM filtered by ISP): if you have some machine that is online 24/7 (or close to it) you could easily fetch your mail from that mailbox (either write your own program or use fetchmail/procmail stack on *nix using "keep on server" option) and post-process it using OpenOffice conversion (you can convert files on-the-fly from command line) forwarding resulting PDF back to your email. IT is not designed for heavy lifting, and it shouldn't do it, really. You can use OpenOffice to convert inbound docs to .txt if you want to edit them easily and don't care to lose fancy formatting. Granted that PalmOS devices have proprietary tools to open/edit MS docs but those are different beasts: they employ commercial software whose producer has access to MS resources and can build something workable without reverse-engineering it like OOo and AbiWord folks do. Maybe what you should be looking for is a producer of similar payed-for software for IT? P.S. better yet - if your ISP uses Zimbra for mail they could do PDF conversion on-the-fly server-side out-of-the-box :) P.P.S No I don't work for Zimbra... err... Yahoo ;) _______________________________________________ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@xxxxxxxxx https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
