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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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 Then there's "letter", "legal" and all the other strange paper sizes (as in not using ratios on 1 to 1.414) they insist on using in one North American country. > 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 point of using PDF is that it shouldn't need to be edited, it is ment to be an electronic representation of how something would appear on paper. Or at least it was until some joker decided to add things like javascript and progressive display to it. > 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! There arn't that many planes with car engines (even aviation piston engines are somewhat different). I'm not sure the average car engine would run at all 2.5km in the air :) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFJQBxtsoRLMhsZpFcRAtASAJ9c7UCq0Z1lJ3aTWGM/6HKgcROtHQCgl2+A XFeN/btBcgrkbQm4kNayKzc= =tcJ4 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html