Reading a .doc file (MSWord) in ObjectiveC?

Question

Is it possible to read a .doc file (MSWord) in ObjC? Or is there any other way to read a word file?

thanks

Answer 1

It depends on your platform. IPhone has very different rich text features than OS X. UIWebView can open them on iPhone. With Cocoa on Mac OS X, you can simply use NSAttributedString.

Answer 2

If you just want to display it to the user, you can put it in a UIWebView . See this technical note for details.

Answer 3

UIWebView not only displays text documents, but can also display: - Images - Strength points - Excel - Any other file (except project files, for example xcodeproj)