Off topic document formats...

[Arnold Rots]

martin hill wrote:
> Er, so everyone is forced to send around Acrobat documents?  And buy Acrobat
> licences instead of Word ones?  

Only those who pay for Word licenses in the first place.
Acrobat reader is free.

> 
> Isn't there a Word converter for Open Office?  

Doesn't always work well - see Clive's roiginal post.

> 
> 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.  

Fine with me, though PDF is quite a reasonable standard for documents.

> 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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Arnold H. Rots                                Chandra X-ray Science Center
Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory                tel:  +1 617 496 7701
60 Garden Street, MS 67                              fax:  +1 617 495 7356
Cambridge, MA 02138                             arots at head-cfa.harvard.edu
USA                                     http://hea-www.harvard.edu/~arots/
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