Sorry for delay... Power cuts ! USM Bish wrote: > > > Just my personal view. Avoid ALL proprietory formats if it is > the issue of portability that you are looking at. If you save > in .rtf format, you can take any file from M$-Word to almost > any Linux WP like KWord/ Abiword/ Ted/ Maxwell etc and vice > versa. Oh yes, all Mac WPs also read .rtf. > > Similarly, .htm/ .html is another portable format. >
Good suggestion Bish, but that means every-time one has to import/export the same file while using it - that too on both sides, M$ and Linux ! I want to avoid it !! Otherwise .rtf is the de-facto standard method. The only problem is in .rtf, we loss the graphics - or so I think ! Any soln for sharing a MS-Word .doc file with all the graphics/WordArt images in Linux-Kword ? Some Book/Publication/DTP expert may help me, here - please ! Wait-a-minute, how abt WordPerfect ? I have never used WP either on Winxx or Linux. WP users can enlighten me here. Can we share WP files on Winxx/Linux platform - w/o importing/exporting ? If possible then, there is no need of converting to .rtf or .doc etc. Also WP files can be easily opened in M$-Word without lossing any formatting/graphics ! The only draw-back of WP seems to be with opening some RTF files properly - at-least that is what I "heard" on the topic long back on LIH. Also I assume there is no soln to my 2nd query : "Also can an M$ application (VC++) ( or even M$-Word for that matter ) and Kword append single line text records to a single Kword file already opened on Linux box thru Kword ? Here sharing means "sharing at-a-time" ! I fear M$ will complain "sharing violation"... " :( PS: If it is a one-time job or if we ourselves are doing it, then it is OK. But how to convience regular DTP users doing heavy publication works on a network of 11 PCs - 2 Linux- 9 Winxx ? ( One linux m/c is used as Mail server - cum gateway apart from as a DTP node) Thanks ! ~ Pat ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by: Jabber Inc. Don't miss the IM event of the season | Special offer for OSDN members! JabConf 2002, Aug. 20-22, Keystone, CO http://www.jabberconf.com/osdn _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
