A few years ago, being able to have the same tools on both Windows and Mac seemed like a utopia, but with the passage of time, many are the developers who have opted for both platforms, at least among the largest, and today it is very difficult to enter applications that are only on one operating system. And when I talk about applications, I mean renowned applications, not small applications that allow us to perform any task sporadically. Even so, we still find Windows files, files that we can only open on Microsoft's Windows platform. Fortunately, in the Mac App Store we find DocumentReader 3, an application that allows us to open most files of this type on our Mac.
DocumentReader 3 is able to open, but not edit, any Windows file in WPS, Microsoft Works, Corel WordpPerfect WPD, Open XML, Paper XPS, OXPS, Microsoft VISIO, Microsoft Outlook Winmail.dat ... and so on. number of files that if we have just changed the platform from Windows to Mac, it can be very helpful, although only to view it. To try to get around this limitation, the application allows us to convert all these types of files to PDF format.
Once we have the file in PDF format we must use an application that takes care of convert the text file in PDF format to a format like Word or Pages. Applications of this type can easily be found in the App Store, and many of them are completely free. But if we do not want to export them to PDF format, we can print them directly or convert them into image files in JPEG, PNG, TIFF, BMP, GIF format ...
DocumentReader is priced at 16,99 euros on the Mac App Store, requires 27 MB of free space on our Mac, is compatible with macOS 10.8, requires a 64-bit processor and is only in English, but the language barrier is not a problem if we are used to working with this type of application , applications whose operation is very simple and intuitive.