Re: Attachment format
On 31/10/2004, at 1:54 PM, Peter Sealy wrote: This request is the opposite to the more common one of how to open received mail attachments. Many thanks to all who replied. . Peter Sealy Thurgoona AUSTRALIA
Re: Attachment format
On Sun, 2004-10-31 at 10:54, Peter Sealy wrote: I need to send an attachment to an email so it can be opened and read by PC-using recipients. The attachment will be a kind of an information sheet and ideally will have more than one font size and bold typing as well as regular. Send a URL instead. Is there any way I can set up the format using TextEdit [or Tex-Edit Plus] so the PC-ers can read it? I do not have Word of any description or any other word-processing app? No. If the answer is no, then if I just write a standard letter format using TextEdit and add .doc at the end of the title of the document does that ensure that at least PC-users can open it and with the original paragraph set out and formatting in place. No, a .doc extension is not the same as a TextEdit file. Write a HTML document, put it on the web and send the URL to your users. Onno Benschop Connected via WestNet because I cannot see Optus B3 where I am :-( -- ()/)/)()..ASCII for Onno.. |?..EBCDIC for Onno.. --- -. -. --- ..Morse for Onno.. Proudly supported by Skipper Trucks, Highway1, Concept AV, Sony Central, Dalcon ITmaze - ABN: 56 178 057 063 - ph: 04 1219 - onno at itmaze dot com dot au
Re: Attachment format
On 31/10/2004, at 10:54 AM, Peter Sealy wrote: This request is the opposite to the more common one of how to open received mail attachments. I need to send an attachment to an email so it can be opened and read by PC-using recipients. The attachment will be a kind of an information sheet and ideally will have more than one font size and bold typing as well as regular. Is there any way I can set up the format using TextEdit [or Tex-Edit Plus] so the PC-ers can read it? I do not have Word of any description or any other word-processing app? TextEdit in Panther can save (and open) in Word format. For what you need, it will serve very well. If you don't have Panther, TextEDit can still save as RTF which pretty much any modern word processor can read. RTF preserves text and paragraph formatting. You can also use the Save as PDF option from the Print dialog, but there's no guarantee that the recipient will have Acrobat Reader installed. This is not uncommon with Windows machines. If the answer is no, then if I just write a standard letter format using TextEdit and add .doc at the end of the title of the document does that ensure that at least PC-users can open it and with the original paragraph set out and formatting in place. No. The PC will just try to open it as a Word file and fail. Not only that, the file will actually have a Word icon and confuse the heck out of the recipient into the bargain. -- Peter HinchliffeApwin Computer Services FileMaker Pro Solutions Developer Perth, Western Australia Phone (618) 9332 6482Fax (618) 9332 0913 Mac because I prefer it -- Windows because I have to.
Re: Attachment format
On Mon, 2004-11-01 at 09:14, Peter Hinchliffe wrote: On 31/10/2004, at 10:54 AM, Peter Sealy wrote: This request is the opposite to the more common one of how to open received mail attachments. I need to send an attachment to an email so it can be opened and read by PC-using recipients. The attachment will be a kind of an information sheet and ideally will have more than one font size and bold typing as well as regular. Is there any way I can set up the format using TextEdit [or Tex-Edit Plus] so the PC-ers can read it? I do not have Word of any description or any other word-processing app? TextEdit in Panther can save (and open) in Word format. For what you need, it will serve very well. If you don't have Panther, TextEDit can still save as RTF which pretty much any modern word processor can read. RTF preserves text and paragraph formatting. Sending documents in Word format isn't really the best manners unless you _know_ the PC user has Word. It might not be too bad an idea to provide an RTF, or send Word with a PDF copy as well. You can also use the Save as PDF option from the Print dialog, but there's no guarantee that the recipient will have Acrobat Reader installed. This is not uncommon with Windows machines. On the other hand, Acrobat Reader is a free download. Word most definitely is not - and the free Word Viewer is getting decidedly long in the tooth. If the answer is no, then if I just write a standard letter format using TextEdit and add .doc at the end of the title of the document does that ensure that at least PC-users can open it and with the original paragraph set out and formatting in place. No. The PC will just try to open it as a Word file and fail. Not only that, the file will actually have a Word icon and confuse the heck out of the recipient into the bargain. I actually get messages like this (generally from mac users, perhaps because its harder to change file extensions under Windows) a lot at work, so it's an important thing to understand. Changing the file extension does not change anything about the data, it just changes what the PC will _expect_ the file to contain. It'll open it in a different program which won't understand the file, and the recipient will usually tell you that your document was corrupt or some-such. I generally get the users to save such files in a network-accessible directory and use the `file' utility found on most Linux and UNIX systems (probably OS/X too) to identify what the real file type is, then convert it to something our users can work with. The single most frequent case is people renaming MS Word documents to '.pdf' and thinking it's made a PDF. It is beyond me why they don't attempt to open their PDF to make sure it worked before sending it to us... -- Craig Ringer
Attachment format
This request is the opposite to the more common one of how to open received mail attachments. I need to send an attachment to an email so it can be opened and read by PC-using recipients. The attachment will be a kind of an information sheet and ideally will have more than one font size and bold typing as well as regular. Is there any way I can set up the format using TextEdit [or Tex-Edit Plus] so the PC-ers can read it? I do not have Word of any description or any other word-processing app? If the answer is no, then if I just write a standard letter format using TextEdit and add .doc at the end of the title of the document does that ensure that at least PC-users can open it and with the original paragraph set out and formatting in place. Thanks . Peter Sealy Thurgoona AUSTRALIA
Re: Attachment format
Type what ever you want and save it as a PDF (standard in the print menu of OSX) even PCs can read these (well most of them). If that doesn't work save it as RTF, MS Word can open this and generally get it correct. robin On 31/10/2004, at 10:54 AM, Peter Sealy wrote: This request is the opposite to the more common one of how to open received mail attachments. I need to send an attachment to an email so it can be opened and read by PC-using recipients. The attachment will be a kind of an information sheet and ideally will have more than one font size and bold typing as well as regular. Is there any way I can set up the format using TextEdit [or Tex-Edit Plus] so the PC-ers can read it? I do not have Word of any description or any other word-processing app? If the answer is no, then if I just write a standard letter format using TextEdit and add .doc at the end of the title of the document does that ensure that at least PC-users can open it and with the original paragraph set out and formatting in place. Thanks . Peter Sealy Thurgoona AUSTRALIA -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] WAMUG is powered by Stalker CommuniGatePro
