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

 

Neil Stone wrote:
> 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...
Presuming this works under Thunderbird (overkill?  Yeah, but I don't 
like pine and mutt):
                                                                                 

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What it is? :D

(A quick convert with GIMP)

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