Thank you Kin...said what I would have. To All: I did not want this to erupt into a huge debate on file preferences, file formats and the universiality of formats. Quite simply I think Kin & Dave have caught what I was trying to get at...my bad for not stating it clearer in my orignal post. Let me try and repost that here: I want to try and build a portable office on a USB key that will run in a windows environment and will allow me as much functionality as possible for creating/editing/etc. OOo files (and possibly html, pdf & doc files as well). I am aware that OOo will do all of this for me and that I could run it from knoppix or a business card cd or any other variables. To my understanding abiword has some if not moost of this functionality, can be run from a key and can be run in a windows environment. I am looking for the instances where downloading/installing/etc OOo may not be an option (i.e. dialup connection, no cd-drive but a usb port, no permissions to install, strict policies regarding installing unapproved software, cybercafe where being billed by time, etc.). The "closest" ( and I use the term loosely) parallel I can draw is something similar to MS's word/excel/powerpoint readers...but hopefully with more functionality. I am not a programmer nor can I afford the time or money for a new book.
Hope that clears everything up? And if you truly want to talk universiality of files...all word processor documents should be sent in *.rtf format as it is a universal (or pretty close as I understand) word processor document type. > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Behalf Of Kin C Wong > Sent: January 19, 2005 1:16 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [clug-talk] Query - Reading OOo/SO Files Formats > > > > > As already covered, both PDF and HTML offer options that are easily > > handled by > > any device these days. Open Office supports both. > > True if you are in control of creation of the file in which case you can > save it in one of the two universal formats. This is not true if you are > the recipient of a file that is not supported by the software > that you have. > > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying > _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
