Linux DOCX *viewer*?

[Peter Flynn]

Abiword is lightweight and seems to do the job.

P

On 23 September 2024 20:33:30 MR ZenWiz <mrzenwiz at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Sep 23, 2024 at 11:55 AM Robert Heller <heller at deepsoft.com> wrote:
>>
>> Is there a lightweight linux program that can *view* .docx files? I have no
>> interest in *editing* such a file. (Yes, I could install libroffice, but
>> that is a huge package that I don't have any actual use for.) I from time to
>> time get .docx files that I need to read, but can't just directly view them. I
>> generally run them through pandoc to convert to pdf and then view the pdf file
>> with xpdf, but this seems wasteful (of my time and disk space).
>>
> A quick web search turns up docx2txt
> (http://docx2txt.sourceforge.net/) and pandoc (https://pandoc.org/) as
> possibilities. There's also AbiWord.
>
> I've never tried any of those (well, no AbiWord in years...).
>
> Personally I prefer LibreOffice - I use it all the time. YMMV.
>
> MRZ
>
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