Leonard Rosenthol on Tue, 9 Oct 2001 17:47:18 -0400 |
At 1:39 PM -0400 10/9/01, paul@dpagin.net wrote: > information as he inteneded. A more effective standard likehtml, 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. 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 -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- You've got a SmartFriend? in Pennsylvania ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Leonard Rosenthol Internet: leonardr@lazerware.com Web Site: <http://www.lazerware.com/> Coola Signature: <http://signature.coola.com/?leonardr@lazerware.com> PGP Fingerprint: C76E 0497 C459 182D 0C6B AB6B CA10 B4DF 8067 5E65
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