PC needs to read Mac documents

March 19, 2005 11:04 AM

I need a free and solid document reader. I have a PC, the documents I need to read are from a mac. Any suggestions?
posted by pwally to Computers & Internet (6 answers total)

what kind of documents? there are free from MS Word and Excel viewers; text documents are pretty much just text (though you may want to use Wordpad and not Notepad to open - Wordpad understands non-Windows line feeds); PDFs are, well, PDFs, etc.. there are converters available that convert more esoteric things, but they're not free (and possibly overkill).
posted by mrg at 11:08 AM on March 19, 2005

What's the format?
posted by AlexReynolds at 11:11 AM on March 19, 2005

Best answer: if it's doc or txt format, go with openoffice.org ... it's not just a document reader, it's an office suite, and it's free
posted by pyramid termite at 1:43 PM on March 19, 2005

I don't mean to jack this askme (but perhaps this is what the poster is asking?), but does anyone know of (an?) utilities that can allow PCs (WinXP) to read OSX formatted media? I remember there used to be back in the days of DOS and Win3.1...
posted by PurplePorpoise at 2:13 PM on March 19, 2005

Try MacDrive.
posted by ninthart at 3:17 PM on March 19, 2005

Ok, judging by what was highlighted as best answer, I was wrong about the intents of the question asker - but ninthart *thanks* that's exactly what I was looking for
posted by PurplePorpoise at 9:58 AM on March 20, 2005