On Thu, 2002-12-12 at 16:08, Rick Johnson wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > James Francis wrote: > | Raj, Well-worded. > | Like it or not, and trust me I hate it, Microsoft Word is a standard. For > | what it is worth, I receive .lwp documents from IBM all the time. I can't > | open them up in OpenOffice and I can't open them up in Microsoft Word. > | After research, I realized that lwp is for Lotus Word Pro. They ended up > | reconverting it into a PDF format for me. > > One word: > > RTF > > Problem solved. Cross platform, cross application, just about anything can > read it and most formatting isn't lost. >
Not too bad a solution or at least a step in the right direction. I too have been hit with this from both sides. Unfortunatly for anything in the general business world, Word appears to be the defacto standard but that may be on the verge of change. Did anyone read the infoworld interveiw with McNealy of Sun where he said that Sony was going to bundle star office on all their computers with others to follow? http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/02/12/11/021211hnmcnealy.xml?1212theb I have been running Office 97 on win4lin for a couple of years now because we redline documents with various vendors and attorneys all the time. If we caould get a cross platform spec on that it would be a fine world indeed. Bret -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
