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

 

Grant Sewell wrote:
> 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)
>
>   
No idea, it got line wrapped..

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