Yes, i know that, the extension change was for user compatibility :-) Cheers Szemir
On June 29, 2007 12:05, Gustin Johnson wrote: > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > 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
