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daudi · 03-18-2008, 08:50 AM

For reading word docs, there's a couple of things you could do:

i) save as rtf and read using the fbreader (I've not tried this)

ii) convert to PDF. I have a little script that uses openoffice to do this effortlessly. (You could optionally have it adjust the page size and margins to make it fit the iliad page size exactly, but I don't do that because I often have tables in the docs that I need to read and resizing the page on-the-fly can make for some very messy tables.)

03-18-2008, 08:50 AM	#2
daudi Addict Posts: 281 Karma: 904 Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Kent, UK Device: iRex iLiad, Psion 5MX, nokia n800	For reading word docs, there's a couple of things you could do: i) save as rtf and read using the fbreader (I've not tried this) ii) convert to PDF. I have a little script that uses openoffice to do this effortlessly. (You could optionally have it adjust the page size and margins to make it fit the iliad page size exactly, but I don't do that because I often have tables in the docs that I need to read and resizing the page on-the-fly can make for some very messy tables.)