Re: Evince as universal "Viewer"

[Jonathan Blandford <jrb redhat com>]

Alan <alan ufies org> writes:

> I'd like to see evince add functionality not for images (which as others
> have said have different needs than documents), but for other doc types.
> It'd be great to view .doc, .swx, .pdf, .abiword, etc documents all able
> to be viewed from one application.  Having a nice similar thumbnail,
> bookmark, system for all docs would be great.  Of course, it's also nice
> to have it *fast*.  The big thing about the preview app on os/x is that
> it's lightning fast :)

This is somewhat tricky, according the the abiword guys.  We might be
able to export the doc as pdf, and view it that way, but it's a bit of a
hack.  Still, if someone wants to tackle this, they shoudl give it a
shot.

Thanks,
-Jonathan