[maemo-users] Office document support

[From: Mark]

On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 2:03 PM, lakestevensdental
<lakestevensdental at verizon.net> wrote:
> Andrew Daviel wrote:
>> On Fri, 17 Apr 2009, Rainer Dorsch wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Does anybody know what is the status of viewing MS office and openoffice
>>> documents on the N810?
>>>
>>
>> At some point I was playing with OpenOffice server mode. It's broken
>> right now, but the idea was if you wanted to view an office document on
>> the tablet, and it was on the Web already, you passed the URL to a
>> web service URL and it returned a PDF
>>
> Google Docs lets you look at AND play AND save OpenOffice files while
> online.  You just need a free google account and internet access to make
> it work, assuming the tablet's Firefox can handle Google Docs.
>
...provided it's a *very* basic document with almost nothing in the
way of special features like formatted sections, tables, images, and
other imbedded stuff. I've had zero luck with Google Docs, even on my
desktop. If you *create* the documents with Google Docs, you're fine,
but trying to view and work with documents created with Word or OOo is
an exercise in futility & frustration.

Your best bet is Turbo Easy Debian for Everyone
http://maemo.org/downloads/product/OS2008/easy-deb-chroot/

Mark