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Re: [LUG] I thought this might get a bit of a reaction

 

On Wednesday 10 December 2008 12:26, Benjamin M. A'Lee wrote:
...
> Of course, most of the things that people use docx/pdf for could be
> represented as plaintext, or at a push HTML, with no loss of
> information.
PDF - Pointless Document Format.
My screen is not A4 or A5 and my printer driver can format anything to fit on 
whatever paper its got in it thanks - assuming your document is so badly 
written I have to print it to make sense of it.
Plaintext is probably better than PDF in that it wont cost me (in terms of CPU 
and diskspace) to edit or otherwise utilise your document but sensible use of 
the hyperlink will make all our lives easier - assuming I cant get my 
computer to talks to your computer and leave me out of it altogether....
Tom te tom te tom

Office software is to your computer what a car chassis is to the combustion 
engine - stops it flying!


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