[PLUG] Viewing files (was Re: John "MAD DOG" Hall)

[Leonard Rosenthol <leonardr@lazerware.com>]

At 1:39 PM -0400 10/9/01, paul@dpagin.net wrote:
>  > information as he inteneded.  A more effective standard like
> >  html, postscript, or adobe's pdf would have served this person much better
> >  as all on the list and across most business communities would have
> >  something to read the document and see it layed out as intended.
>
> HTML would be the best format.

	Not if you wanted to maintain the look & feel on all machines 
OR if it used images (that would therefore require external files).


> PDF would be better considering that the viewer is free and
> widely available.

	PDF is the best choice of formats as it solves the above 
problems and, as you point out, has free viewers on all platforms 
since it is an open specification.


> (I believe there is a free Word document viewer, but where is it and how many
> people would actually bother with it?)

	http://www.wvware.com - and you are right, most folks don't. 
Also, as others have pointed out, Star Office, AbiWord, KWord, etc. 
all read Word files.


> How do you view a postscript file? How would a Windows user view a 
> postscript file?
	Ghostscript - http://www.ghostscript.org.  Available for a 
number of platforms, including Windows.



Leonard
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