On Oct 10, 2006, at 12:19 PM, eric pareja wrote:
On 10/10/06, renlux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
(update)
when I checked gov.ph today, the downloadable forms are now more
in PDF. At
least, it's more portable than MS Word, and PDF is now open, I guess.
Although PDF is more open, and viewers/editors are available for it, I
think that public documents should be made available in plain text
format mandatorily. This makes these public documents accessible to
anyone who wants them and less prone to document format "fashion". PDF
is fine, for now.
In as much as plain ASCII text is preferred, documents require some
formatting, which is quite difficult to achieve using plain ASCII
text. ODF is still the way to go.
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