[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] How to view Microsoft word/ppt in maemo ?

From: Jose Manrique Lopez de la Fuente jsmanrique at gmail.com
Date: Fri Sep 16 10:18:56 EEST 2005
Like these:
http://visioo-writer.tuxfamily.org/
http://imposter.sourceforge.net/

Best regards,

2005/9/16, Karoliina Salminen <karoliina.t.salminen at nokia.com>:
> On Fri, 2005-09-16 at 13:36 +0800, ext Falls Huang wrote:
> > Hello!
> >       Can I view the ms office word/ppt/excel file in maemo ?
> >       Can I view the openoffice.org file in maemo ?
> 
> Sure if someone ports OpenOffice.org or something similar for Maemo
> which may be challenging, but not necessarily impossible provided that
> someone does it.
> 
> Currently however, as far as my understanding, the answer is no. The
> OpenOffice.org for example is a quite demanding application on the
> desktop and may be quite hard to make it fit into a resource limited
> device (very limited memory if compared to desktop (64 MB RAM, and with
> Linux, X, AF Desktop etc. loaded, not very much free RAM), very limited
> flash, if compared to desktop Linux box hard drive etc).
> 
> If there would be a tiny GTK+ based OpenOffice.org viewer somewhere out
> there in the open source community (I don't know if there is), that
> would be the best starting point and a lot more realistic to port so
> that it will propably work on the 770 device. Optimizing the memory
> footprint down would be crucial to success.
> 
> Best Regards,
> Karoliina
> http://www.karoliinasalminen.com/blog
> 
> 
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