Re: Evince as universal "Viewer"

[Hubert Figuiere <hfiguiere teaser fr>]

Jonathan Blandford wrote:

> > 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.


AbiWord used to have a Bonobo embeddable control... that allowed to view 
.doc and other inline in Evolution. I don't know how it survived though, 
 I think Dom disabled it, but I might be wrong.


Hub