On Sat, Oct 23, 2010 at 9:45 PM, Tanay Mathpal <[email protected]> wrote:
> Though I am not from IIT but one feasibility issue which i see in your > suggestion is that OpenOffice does not retain the original page and > font formatting for documents created with Microsoft Office and vice > versa. This loss of formatting is even more evident in case of the new > Office 2007 .docx format files. As most documents brought for printing > would be MS Word files, installing Linux would affect the business and > reputation of the shopkeeper among unaware students which I'm sure > would be quite a lot in numbers. > > i think you are wrong i donno exactly what to install but installing a plugin will solve the above issue > So before installing Linux in the shops, the logical flow of action > would be to encourage the use of open standards for document creation > amongst students. Even if some of the students are initially reluctant > to switch to Linux, the use of OpenOffice for creating .odt files > should be encouraged. For porting the documents from one system to the > other, there is nothing better than the .pdf format. The use of all > these open standards needs to be encouraged. > > Regards, > Tanay Mathpal > Assistant Systems Engineer > Tata Consultancy Services > Thiruvananthapuram > Twitter: @tanamania > > On 10/23/10, Naren Bharatwaj <[email protected]> wrote: > > Just got a random thought on why not help install Linux in all hostels > where > > photocopy/printing facility is available. I've had to print some > documents > > and when I take the content in a pendrive, it invariably ends up infected > > with virus. I hope there'll be students from every hostel in this mailing > > list. We can go in groups and encourage the guy who runs the photocopy > > facility to install linux by highlighting the advantages of linux. > According > > to my observation, he uses the system only for printing documents (word > > documents/PDF files). > > > > Any ideas on this are welcome. > > > > Naren Bharatwaj > > > > -- > > l...@iitd - http://tinyurl.com/ycueutm > > > > -- > Sent from my mobile device > > -- > l...@iitd - http://tinyurl.com/ycueutm > -- l...@iitd - http://tinyurl.com/ycueutm
