Hippo 🍉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)
LINux on MOBile@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
Mobile Libre Office
If for some reason the above don’t resolve the issue, you may be able to use the command line interface (libreoffice) to convert the .doc file to a .txt file, which may open up other options for copying text out. e.g. libreoffice --convert-to txt foo.odt will create foo.txt with a best effort of extracting the text. (Can also be used for doing conversion to PDF for export.) Notes: Not tested on the Librem 5. Not testing with .doc because I don’t have a file in such an ancient format 😉 ...