On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 1:41 PM, James Knott <james.knott@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Gary wrote: >> Andrew Daviel wrote: >> >>> There were things like "antiword" and "catdoc" as well which did >>> a slightly better job. >>> >>> >> >> Pine and antiword used to be my best friends. Using either with the >> tablet are a pain in the posterior w/o a Bluetooth keyboard for CTRL >> keys but I like that the newer X-term has taken alt keys in to >> consideration. Are there "light" versions of Google docs? I ask because >> with my tablet I'm always using the plain HTML or mobile versions of >> gmail and google.com/xhtml for searching with my tablet. On a side note, >> the iPhone and iPod Touch can view office documents out of the box. >> >> > > I don't know if it's been mentioned yet, but with OpenOffice, you can > export a document as PDF, which the tablets can handle. > If you know ahead of time and only need to view a document there are lots of utilities (many free) that can convert pretty much anything to PDF. However, you can't edit PDFs, especially on the tablets. Mark _______________________________________________ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@xxxxxxxxx https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
