A suggested revision for UCDs

[Clive Page]

On Tue, 21 Oct 2003, Thomas McGlynn wrote:

> A few minutes ago I uploaded a version of my suggested revised
> proposal for UCDs to the Twiki.  This is just a Word version since
> I don't have a PDF generator handy.

An off-topic note to Tom (and others with the same problem in producing
PDFs):

Many of us on Unix/Linux systems find Word documents inconvenient; I
thought OpenOffice.org might cope with your file, but it produces
illegible results without a lot of playing with fonts, and even then was
very poor.

Not long ago, however, I came across an on-line service for converting
Word documents to PDF (or HTML) which seems quite useful:
http://www.gobcl.com/

You upload your document and they email you the PDF a couple of minutes
later.  I haven't received any obvious spam as a result, and don't know
what their privacy policy is, but for documents to be published, this
doesn't seem important.  I don't know why they provide this service free
of charge, but I've found it useful.  Actually I got an error message when
I submitted Tom's recent UCD document, but the PDF came back anyway, and
seems ok, still in glorious technicolor.


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