DocPreview is a lightweight WebKit plugin to display a text-only preview of Microsoft Word documents, inline and within the Safari browser.

deprecation notice

This plugin DOES NOT WORK with Safari 5.1. The entire WebKit Plugin API it depended on has been removed in Safari 5.1, and therefore cannot be used anymore. This actually broke a lot of other Webkit webplugins besides this one. This project remains up for historical curiosity, and for users who are still using Safari 5.0 and below.

DocPreview features include:

• Universal binary support, for use on both PPC and Intel Macs.
• supports OS X 10.6 (for Safari 5.0 and below), 10.5 and 10.4 (with degraded parsing ability). On OS X 10.5+, the plugin also supports Microsoft's new OpenXML (.docx) documents.
• Support for full document view mode or embedded mode (if the page author uses object and embed tags, like in Flash)
• In full document view mode, DocPreview uses Safari's built-in Find and Text Zoom abilities. Any command that can be run on a normal Safari webpage can be performed on a DocPreview rendering.
• In embedded mode, Find on Page and Text Zoom support are implemented separately. Since no one ever uses embedded .doc files anyway, the point is fairly moot for most users.

To install, drag DocPreview.webplugin into /Users/<your name>/Library/Internet Plug-ins or /Library/Internet Plug-ins.

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