[imp] Request for Improvements-

Rich Lafferty rich@horde.org
Fri, 30 Mar 2001 12:48:33 -0500


On Fri, Mar 30, 2001 at 11:27:54AM -0600, Tom Warfield (twarfield@astcorp.com) wrote:
> (Note: Im using IMP Version 2.2.4)
> 
> My users are very impressed with the Attachments option so that they can
> read Word documents through their browser.
> 
> With this in mind I would like them to be able to view the following types
> of files:
> Powerpoint
> Excel

If you don't want to use plugins for these, then you'll need to find
something that converts them to HTML, which could be integrated in the
same way that wvware does. 

> Acrobat

Why not use free Acrobat Reader or equivalent? That's the point of
PDF, after all.. between Acrobat Reader and xpdf and pdf2text, there
aren't very many platforms that can't read a PDF file..

  -Rich

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