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

[Jim Popovitch]

On Tue, 2005-08-23 at 16:18 -0400, Geoffrey wrote:
> 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.  

In xpdf and gpdf all you are viewing is an image, albeit an image of a
document.

-Jim P.