Jason wrote:
> 
> I know this involves the use of one of the hated Winblows boxes, but
> it seems to me that the more linux-friendly solution to the "How do I
> show this .doc file to my linux-loving friends?" is to save it as a
> .ps file (Easy to do with any Win application). Ghostscript displays
> those beautifully.
> 
> Is there an open source PDF viewer yet?

Ghostscript also displays PDF files, so dies Ghostview (gv).   There is
also xpdf.

In addition I found that there is a msword documents to PDF converter
called wvPDF...

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