[ale] Still no flames... :-)

[Geoffrey]

Jim Popovitch wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-08-23 at 13:44 -0400, Michael B. Trausch wrote:
> 
> 
>>Yeah... Someday, though, people will figure out how to use document
>>formats that are document formats.  :-D  Word is a proprietary thing,
>>and before OpenOffice, what did people request when someone didn't have
>>access to anyone else that had a Word license?  
> 
> 
> that's easy:  RTF.  It is the non-proprietary subset supported
> universally.  If you send an RTF doc all platforms (at least all the
> ones I know about) will be able to open and render it.  Avoid using
> strange fonts/formatting and you should be good.
> 
> PDF sucks (requires bloatware to view).  JPG is better than PDF. ;-)

What?  jpg was not designed for documents, but for images.  pdf is 
specifically designed for documents.

bloatware?

acroread: (pdf)

-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root 7148 2004-10-04 14:18 /usr/X11R6/bin/acroread

display: (jpeg)

-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root 7588 2004-10-04 16:14 /usr/bin/display


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Until later, Geoffrey