Off topic document formats...

[martin hill]

Er, so everyone is forced to send around Acrobat documents?  And buy Acrobat
licences instead of Word ones?  

Isn't there a Word converter for Open Office?  

Even much more better still, how about posting as hmtl (if there are no
diagrams)?  Everyone can read it and almost everything has a converter to it.  
Or, since it's an AVO standard, I'm sure we could find some way of using VOTable...

Cheers,

Martin
from the "Standards are evil" dept



Quoting Arnold Rots <arots at head-cfa.cfa.harvard.edu>:

> It's a simple choice: those who shelled out the money for a Word
> license can either try to force the rest of the community to do the
> same by sending around Word documents, or spend themselves a little
> more by buying an Acrobat license and thus allow everybody to spend
> his/her money as (s)he sees fit.
> Personally, I think Word should always be bundled with Acrobat, at
> least in our community.
> 
>   - Arnold
> 
> Clive Page wrote:
> > 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
> > ...
> > 
> > -- 
> > Clive Page
> > Dept of Physics & Astronomy,
> > University of Leicester,    Tel +44 116 252 3551
> > Leicester, LE1 7RH,  U.K.   Fax +44 116 252 3311
> > 
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