On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 01:45:02PM +0000, samwise wrote:
... er, but isn't docx-converter.com an MS Windows program, not much help on a Linux box.
No. Have you visited the site?
Yes, I did a Google search and, at a quick glance at least, it seemed like an MS program.
OK, I've taken another look and (being a command line junkie) I'm totally confused. It offers me a download which is a .zip file and when I download it it unpacks and gives me a file called docx-converter.wdgt and I haven't a clue what to do with that.
... and OpenOffice.org 3 is still in beta I guess so isn't really an easy option, i.e. a bit OTT for just opening a document.
No, 3.0 was released last month.
OK, but it's not available as a packaged update for many (any?) main line Linux distributions yet is it? As I said it seems a bit OTT to install the whole of OpenOffice outside my standard package manager just to let me open .docx files.
As I said I think I'm just going to say .docx files are unacceptable and leave it at that.