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On Wed, 2007-05-30 at 00:06 +0000, Duncan wrote: |
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> > Well neither the html nor plain text versions of the document, as saved |
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> > by OpenOffice, preserved the formatting I want, so no-go there. If I |
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> > can't get the document into properly formatted plain text, I think I'll |
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> > stick with pdf, odt and/or ps, all of which preserve the formatting. |
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> PDF is what I'd do, if plain text wasn't viable. It's widely used and |
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> has an open spec. A lot of government and commercial stuff is PDF, so I |
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> don't think the need to read it anyway is going anywhere for awhile. |
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My thinking exactly :-) Postscript is also very widely supported. It's |
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the meta-format for many printers these days. I'd really love to see ODF |
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become as popular, but it hasn't happened yet. |
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