Re: open in browser

On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 4:54 PM, Anders Jepsen <arjepsen@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi.
>
> I'm trying to put together a kiosk-machine at work, and I need to give
> the users the possibility to open (view) word docs, and print them.
> I found that abiword could be used to this end, but I would like it to
> open the doc INSIDE firefox, instead of open the full application in a
> window of it's own.
> Is this possible?

You can convert the doc into html from command line:
    abiword <FILE> -t html -o <FILE>.html
then open it in firefox. Read the usage information with abiword --help

>
> Another possibility that I thought of, was to have it open the
> application in it's own window, but kinda locked with only the most
> basic menu's available. (pretty much only file->print, and quit.)
> Is it possible to remove everything else?

Yes, you can remove/disable anything if you are willing to mess with
the source code ;-)
>
> Regards.
> Anders
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