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

 

Tom Potts wrote:
> 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
>   
Plain text is all well and good, until you need an image...

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