hi Fabian, * Fabian Keil <[email protected]> [2010-03-30 19:59:00 +0200]:
> For example I'm currently not aware of a proper ODF reader I'd > want to install on systems I care about, in fact I'm not even aware > of something similar to antiword, which mostly works to get the > information I care about out of doc files, has a reasonable list > of dependencies, doesn't take ages to compile and is easy enough > to audit and use. For e-mail I use odt2txt - simple converter from OpenDocument Text to plain text it works quite well. > > Organisations and Software supporting Open Standards > > > > * OpenOffice.org > > * VideoLan, the project making VLC > > Given that the page is about email attachments I don't > think VLC should be mentioned here. What about Ogg Vorbis audio files? > > or the ".docx" format. If you share these documents with people using > > different word processors, it will not be working properly. Good > > alternatives for Microsoft Word are documents in .RTF or in .ODT (use > > the "Save As" feature) > > Most of the time an even better option is to simply copy and paste > the frickin' content into the email directly, as the recipient is > unlikely to care about the fancy layout anyway, and if she does, > she can always request the source file. It also saves bandwidth > and makes discussing the content easier. That is a good point. In a lot of cases it is much better to just add the content in the e-mail directly. Best wishes, Matthias -- German Coordinator, Fellowship Coordinator Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) [] (http://fsfe.org) Join the Fellowship of FSFE! [][][] (http://fsfe.org/join) Your donation powers our work! || (http://fsfe.org/donate) _______________________________________________ Discussion mailing list [email protected] https://mail.fsfeurope.org/mailman/listinfo/discussion
