Re: [Fsfe-uk] open office in schools (was Microsoft 'hoovers millions)

[Alistair Davidson]

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On Monday 29 July 2002 10:37 am, Marc Eberhard wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 29, 2002 at 10:27:59AM +0100, address@hidden wrote:
> > I'd like to create a draft letter to fire off to offending information
> > providers to explain the problems that word documents cause. Does anyone
>
> http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
>
> > have a simple solution that could be presented to the agencies involved?
> > AFAIK exporting a document from Word to PDF requires that you purchase a
> > copy of an Adobe product to obtain the PDF file printer driver.
>
> True. If formatting should be preserved to some extend you can try HTML and
> RTF. Word can save files in both formats, I have been told.

Best to stay away from Word's HTMl, it's poorly generated and IIRC does things 
that only work in IE.

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Alistair Davidson
Prying open your third eye since 1823
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