Linux DOCX *viewer*?

Adam Funk a24061 at ducksburg.com
Tue Sep 24 08:53:07 UTC 2024


On 2024-09-23, Robert Heller 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).

I don't have an answer, but I hadn't heard of pandoc and it looks
useful to me, so thanks for mentioning it.





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