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Mac Forum / Applications / Mac Applications / December 2007any viewer for .doc files for web browser?
I'm using firefox mainly, but would use another browser if it could do this. Any ideas? I'm getting tired of always having to download files...  Signature(*) ... of the royal duchy of city south and deansgate http://www.davidhorne.net - real address on website "He can't be as stupid as he looks, but nevertheless he probably is quite a stupid man." Richard Dawkins on Pres. Bush" > I'm using firefox mainly, but would use another browser if it could do > this. Any ideas? I'm getting tired of always having to download files... <http://schubertit.com/pluginword/> SignatureSander Tekelenburg, <http://www.euronet.nl/~tekelenb/> Mac user: "Macs only have 40 viruses, tops!" PC user: "SEE! Not even the virus writers support Macs!" > > I'm using firefox mainly, but would use another browser if it could do > > this. Any ideas? I'm getting tired of always having to download files... > > <http://schubertit.com/pluginword/> Only seems to work under rosetta... still, better than nothing. Thanks! Signature(*) ... of the royal duchy of city south and deansgate http://www.davidhorne.net - real address on website "He can't be as stupid as he looks, but nevertheless he probably is quite a stupid man." Richard Dawkins on Pres. Bush" > I'm using firefox mainly, but would use another browser if it could do > this. Any ideas? I'm getting tired of always having to download files... If you download the word doc, you can open it using TextEdit. It does a good job unless the Word document has some really fancy formatting. If you are using iWork, you can open the Word document using Pages. Likewise you can use Keynote to open PowerPoint presentations. If you download the open-source (free) NeoOffice, you can open Word, Excel, PowerPoint and other documents. SignatureBill Collins For email, change "fake" to "earthlink" > > I'm using firefox mainly, but would use another browser if it could do > > this. Any ideas? I'm getting tired of always having to download files... [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > If you download the open-source (free) NeoOffice, you can open Word, > Excel, PowerPoint and other documents. I use NeoOffice all the time, but I want to see these documents online, without having to download them. It's for one work related website in particular- stupid "pebblepad" stuff- don't get me started... Anyway, the solution is to use Safari for this- as I don't use it as my browser, so it's not a problem to run it under Rosetta... Signature(*) ... of the royal duchy of city south and deansgate http://www.davidhorne.net - real address on website "He can't be as stupid as he looks, but nevertheless he probably is quite a stupid man." Richard Dawkins on Pres. Bush" [] > Anyway, the solution is to use Safari for this- as I don't use it as my > browser, so it's not a problem to run it under Rosetta... With schubertit, as suggested by another poster. Signature(*) ... of the royal duchy of city south and deansgate http://www.davidhorne.net - real address on website "He can't be as stupid as he looks, but nevertheless he probably is quite a stupid man." Richard Dawkins on Pres. Bush" > I use NeoOffice all the time, but I want to see these documents online, > without having to download them. It's for one work related website in > particular- stupid "pebblepad" stuff- don't get me started... > > Anyway, the solution is to use Safari for this- as I don't use it as my > browser, so it's not a problem to run it under Rosetta... As far as I know, there is no such thing any more as a "online" viewer. Even web browsers require that the HTML document and associated images get downloaded to the browser cache before you can view them. I used to be able to pull that off (viewing without downloading all the crap to the computer) by using a remote terminal rlogged into a mainframe, but I think rlogging into mainframes pretty much went out of style as a way of viewing web pages in the early 1990s. (Though, it was sure a hell of a lot faster than dumping all the crap to your own computer to wade through.) The only thing I can up up with is Google. They have a way of translating online DOC and PDF files into HTML for general browser viewing. For example: paste the following URL into the Google search engine input line: oamweb.osec.doc.gov/docs/CS/Handbook_2006.doc You will get a unique result, which is the Google entry for this file. Underneath the file title, you will see a few pieces of information and options, one of which is "View as HTML". You want that one. When you select that option, Google translates the file into HTML for use with any browser. It is a bit clumsy, but it is the only way I know of to get Google to itentify a file and then use its DOC to HTML converter on it. It will still have to download the file to your computer for use with the browser's cache, but the file it downloads will be a HTML file and not the actual DOC. Signature-Glennl e-mail hint: add 1 to quantity after gl to get 4317. > > I use NeoOffice all the time, but I want to see these documents online, > > without having to download them. It's for one work related website in [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > > As far as I know, there is no such thing any more as a "online" viewer. He obviously means "in the browser window, rather than as a download that opens another application." SignatureBarry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu Arlington, MA *** PLEASE post questions in newsgroups, not directly to me *** *** PLEASE don't copy me on replies, I'll read them in the group *** > > As far as I know, there is no such thing any more as a "online" viewer. > > He obviously means "in the browser window, rather than as a download > that opens another application." His original post made mention of having to wait for the MS-Word document to download, which is going to be a problem no matter what is used - unless you use a remote terminal as I did until the early 1990s. At least with the Google viewer that I suggested, it is HTML that has to download rather than the horrifically overblown formatting that is in some MS-Word documents. I'm not sure how well the Google viewer handles images in the MS-Word document though. Signature-Glennl e-mail hint: add 1 to quantity after gl to get 4317. > > > As far as I know, there is no such thing any more as a "online" viewer. > > [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > to download, which is going to be a problem no matter what is used - > unless you use a remote terminal as I did until the early 1990s. It's the inconvenience of using another application, rather than the wait- so the solution mentioned is fine. Signature(*) ... of the royal duchy of city south and deansgate http://www.davidhorne.net - real address on website "He can't be as stupid as he looks, but nevertheless he probably is quite a stupid man." Richard Dawkins on Pres. Bush" > > > As far as I know, there is no such thing any more as a "online" viewer. > > [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > His original post made mention of having to wait for the MS-Word document > to download, which is going to be a problem no matter what is used - No, he didn't say anything about having to wait; he only said "without downloading". Most people don't think of it as "downloading" unless it's saved to the hard disk as a file outside of the browser's cache. > I'm using firefox mainly, but would use another browser if it could do > this. Any ideas? I'm getting tired of always having to download files... I have been listening to your music and enjoying it. If you are wanting to view PDFs via browser, I can help you. Other things I can't help you. Signaturedorayme >> I'm using firefox mainly, but would use another browser if it could do >> this. Any ideas? I'm getting tired of always having to download files... [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > If you are wanting to view PDFs via browser, I can help you. > Other things I can't help you. That PDF browser plug-in you mentioned some while ago is excellent. I downloaded it and can recommend it - great for just a quick look at something. SignatureSally in Shropshire, UK Burne-Jones/William Morris window in Shropshire church with conservation churchyard: http://www.whitton-stmarys.org.uk |
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