OT: Massachusetts Verdict: MS Office Formats Out

[Mike McCarty]

Michael D. Setzer II wrote:

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> On 29 Sep 2005 at 15:22, Mike McCarty wrote:

>>I started to reply to his message, but you said it soooo much better!
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>>Why should I follow around after OO when I can just boot Windows in
>>about a minute and a half, and be assured that the doc is ok? If OO
>>knows there is a problem, then it should tell me. If there is no
>>problem, it shouldn't frighten me. If it doesn't know, then why should
>>I use it?
>>
>>Mike
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> But I've seen the problem with documents being different if it is sent 
> to someone also using MicroSoft, but having a different printer or 
> fonts. It doesn't print the same. We use to make forms available in 
> Word format, but they would print differently on different system, 
> with different page breaks. PDF files worked with all printers. The 
> only problem was that users couldn't edit the forms, but that wasn't a 
> big issue in our case.

This is a different topic, seems to me. PDF is intended to solve a
different problem, that of printing documents, not editing them.

Mike
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