[CentOS] OT: Viewer for .docx M$ WORD files?

Lanny Marcus lmmailinglists at gmail.com
Thu Jun 11 01:42:46 UTC 2009


On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 6:37 PM, Ross Walker<rswwalker at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> <snip>
>>>>>> OK. I have OpenOffice.org Writer 3.1 open.
>>>>>> There is a big problem with the way the .docx >>>>>>file was
>>>>>> displayed. It
>>>>>> is not pretty. I can see most or all of the words, but they are
>>>>>> not
>>>>>> where they should be. A formatting problem that I can fix?
<snip>
>>>>> Most probably a font problem you can fix.
>>>>> Look for msttcorefonts there is a spec file you <snip>
>> <http://corefonts.sourceforge.net/>
> That's the site. It's one of those to bookmark.
> Once you create the rpm though, stick it on flash for >future use.

Ross: Thank you for mentioning that! If I get this to work, I will
copy the rpm to a CD-R, so I have it available. This will be my first
attempt at doing something like this. A small step on the learning
curve.   :-)   Lanny



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