Wait so what's a good #DocumentViewer for #Mobian that can open .doc files? #Evince doesn't seem to be able to open those 🖇️
(I only need a viewer to take a look from a distance; I'm not planning to touch it or *shudder* dig my hands in and edit it)
@badrihippo You could use https://flathub.org/apps/garden.jamie.Morphosis to convert the document to PDF and then view it. This thread may be helpful, too: https://forums.puri.sm/t/mobile-libre-office/22799
(OS: I just noticed that I thought I had added Morphosis to @linuxphoneapps ... but nope, not yet. Will do once gitlab.gnome.org is up again 🙂 )
@linmob @linuxphoneapps I did see Morphosis. Unfortunately it can't handle .doc (I tried renaming to .docx but that failed; maybe they're different things 😅️)
Anyway it's a useful app that I'm going to keep around! Not every day that the document I receive is a .doc 😜️
@badrihippo Yeah, doc is Microsoft Word's pre-XML format (and no longer the default since Microsoft Office 2007), so whoever send you that is really retro. 😉
You could use LibreOffice to convert it, maybe - similar to the approach described in https://forums.puri.sm/t/mobile-libre-office/22799/4 on the terminal. Or, if LibreOffice is too big, maybe give good old Abiword a try (which back in the 00's had a mobile UI, btw). @linuxphoneapps