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Re: [seul-sci] For comments: .DOC
Hello Ross
Well, RTF has a little problem: size. RTF files are WAY much larger than DOC files. Compacting it would make it fit in a good size, but they(the congress) don't like it.
Anyway, it's not the point:
The very point is that there is people/institutions wich *demand* proprietary formats. This is not good for many many reasons. (Retrieving old docs is may be a nightmare, if you don't have the app anymore; no conversor will ever be 100% confiable; etc.).
What to do/to tell other people to do? Publish it in HTML? PDF? Plain-text? Some formats are hardly edited. Others require images to be linked. Even others have poor formulae support.
Even LaTEX has problems: Neither StarOffice nor MSOffice has a LaTEX conversor. (Personally I have no experience with LaTEX. Correct me if I am wrong)
Some people accept LaTEX, others do not. What do people do in order to exchange documents in a proper manner?
regards,
Danilo
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On 12/05/00 at 16:06 Ross J. Reedstrom wrote:
>On Fri, May 12, 2000 at 04:32:35PM -0300, Danilo Gonzalez Hashimoto wrote:
>> Hello people!
>>
>> We've had a thread on some aspects of using Linux in a production environment some weeks ago. This time I have a new problem: File interchange.
>> Next week, we're going to have a National Ceramics Congress here in Brazil. Perhaps some of you have guessed my problem. Papers in Word format only. Once we have started the change to Linux using StarOffice - wich runs on both platforms - we have a problem.
>> StarOffice writes Word documents, but it does not necessarily means it does it well. Some quite strange things happen to some documents.
>> My question is: Do you also have this problem? Which are your workarounds? How can we solve it?
>
>One trick is to dump to RTF rather than Word format per se, then rename
>the file from foo.rtf to foo.doc. Word will read it and convert on the
>fly. RTF is a bit simpler (and actually sort of documented) so you might
>preserve your original formating better, depending onthe quality of the
>StarOffice export filter.
>
DANILO GONZALEZ HASHIMOTO
Universidade Federal de São Carlos
Bacharelado em Ciência da Computação