-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 MS office opens rtf files just fine. No need to change the extension.
bogi wrote: > Thinking of your problem, why don,t you use OoO and save your document in rtf > format and change the extension to .doc by hand. The prof will never > notice :-) and your formatting will most likely survive intact. It also helps > to use some standard font types that you would know would be available in > both systems, font replacement is likely the biggest problem when it comes to > formating. You might also want to grab the win32 ttf package from SF, > non-free, but available free of charge , it contains a bunch of fonts. I > think there is a package in both debian and ubuntu that contains equivalent > fonts. Unfortunately , due to the different font names, they will still > suffer from font replacement issues. Now i wonder if font encapsulation is > supported by both OoO and Ms systems, at that, you can just use your free > fonts, and encapsulate them with your document, that should eliminate font > replacement... > Cheers > Szemir > > On June 28, 2007 16:49, Jesse Kline wrote: >>> Not sure entirely how relevant this is, but try: >>> >>> http://grover.open2space.com/node/154 >> That's an interesting article. Nice work Shawn! However, my issue is that >> I've had a couple professors that require submissions in Word documents. >> This pisses me off because it is a proprietary format and because I don't >> use MS Office, so there's no guarantee that my formatting will convert >> correctly. This can be fairly critical when I'm required to submit a paper >> of a certain length and in a certain style. I'm looking for some good >> articles to throw at them in the hopes of changing this policy. >> >> Thank you, >> >> Jesse >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGhUoBwRXgH3rKGfMRAoPZAJ9xOccZQsarZ4ywr8fGzyolEReDqQCglHRw JzcIvARhEyu4G6aTWWFSSng= =sd3a -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ 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
