I love your enthusiasm for the LAMP stack, but the LAMP stack will serve Word documents, Flash, and PDFs all day long. You're talking about apples and oranges. However, I believe there are open source programs to use and generate each. I know OpenOffice works with .doc files in most cases, will also do .xls & .ppt, I use the open source progs FPDF & FPDI to generate PDFs in the web apps I write, I think there are open source viewers for PDFs (names?), and I think GIMP will create Flash files, won't it? Maybe some other people can help me out on open source creation / viewing progs for these formats?
> One person found it completely inconceiveable that I could be browsing > the web on a computer that didn't have MicroSoft Word. At the time, I > was using MacOS9 to SSH to Lynx on FreeBSD. That's possibly the > fastest, most stable and most secure way to browse the web on dial-up. > Unfortunately, it snags on every PDF file, every Word document and > every chunk of MacroMedia Flash and JavaScript. > > > D. > > > > Tippus Tailus >
